Collected

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Collect \Col*lect"\ (k[o^]l*l[e^]kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Collected}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Collecting}.] [L. collecrus, p.
     p. of collerige to bind together; col- + legere to gather:
     cf. OF. collecter. See {Legend}, and cf. {Coil}, v. t.,
     {Cull}, v. t.]
     1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring


        together; to obtain by gathering.
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              A band of men
              Collected choicely from each country. --Shak.
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              'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by
              preserving what our labor and industry daily
              collect.                              --Watts.
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     2. To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other
        indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
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     3. To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
        [Archaic.] --Shak.
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              Which sequence, I conceive, is very ill collected.
                                                    --Locke.
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     {To collect one's self}, to recover from surprise,
        embarrassment, or fear; to regain self-control.
  
     Syn: To gather; assemble; congregate; muster; accumulate;
          garner; aggregate; amass; infer; deduce.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Collected \Col*lect"ed\, a.
     1. Gathered together.
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     2. Self-possessed; calm; composed.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  collected
       adj 1: brought together in one place; "the collected works of
              Milton"; "the gathered folds of the skirt" [syn: {gathered}]
              [ant: {uncollected}, {uncollected}]
       2: brought together into a group or crowd; "the accumulated
          letters in my office" [syn: {accumulated}, {amassed}, {assembled},
           {congregate}, {massed}]
       3: in full control of your faculties; "the witness remained
          collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly
          poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more
          dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong
          and self-possessed in the face of trouble" [syn: {equanimous},
           {poised}, {self-collected}, {self-contained}, {self-possessed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "collected":
     accumulated, agglomerate, aggregate, allied, amassed, assembled,
     associated, assured, at ease, backlogged, balanced,
     banded together, bound, bracketed, bunched, bundled, calm, clumped,
     clustered, combined, comfortable, complacent, composed, confident,
     conglomerate, congregate, congregated, conjoined, connected,
     controlled, cool, copulate, coupled, cumulate, easy, easygoing,
     equanimous, equilibrious, fascicled, fasciculated, garnered,
     gathered, glomerate, hand-in-glove, hand-in-hand, heaped, hoarded,
     imperturbable, in session, incorporated, integrated, intimate,
     joined, joint, knotted, laid up, leagued, levelheaded, linked,
     lumped, massed, matched, mated, meeting, merged, nonchalant,
     packaged, paired, peaceful, piled, placid, poised, possessed,
     quiet, recollected, sanguine, sedate, self-assured, self-confident,
     self-controlled, self-possessed, self-restrained, self-satisfied,
     serene, smug, spliced, stacked, still, stockpiled, stored, sure,
     tied, together, tranquil, treasured, undivided, unexcited,
     unflappable, united, unperturbed, unruffled, unseparated, wedded,
     well-balanced, wrapped up, yoked