COLLECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does collected mean? 

• COLLECTED (adjective)
  The adjective COLLECTED has 2 senses:

1. brought together in one place

2. in full control of your faculties

  Familiarity information: COLLECTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brought together in one place

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Synonyms:

collected; gathered

Context example:

the gathered folds of the skirt

Antonym:

uncollected (not brought together in one place)

Participle:

collect (assemble or get together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In full control of your faculties

Synonyms:

collected; equanimous; poised; self-collected; self-contained; self-possessed

Context example:

strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble

Similar:

composed (serenely self-possessed and free from agitation especially in times of stress)

 Context examples 

The date and time a remark was collected.

(Comment Date Time, NCI Thesaurus)

"Well, I've collected from the Transcontinental," he said in an effort to shift the conversation to a more comfortable subject.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A wild-type zebrafish line, the stock of which was collected in Darjeeling, India in 1987.

(Darjeeling Zebrafish, NCI Thesaurus)

When I opened my eyes I found that they had collected the silver from the sideboard, and they had drawn a bottle of wine which stood there.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The hour, minute, and/or second at which the sample or data was collected.

(Collection Time, NCI Thesaurus)

The date on which the sample or data was collected.

(Collection Date, NCI Thesaurus)

Collected refers to objects having been brought together in one place.

(Collected, NCI Thesaurus)

On the way the dwarf showed him the treasures which the witch had collected and hidden there, and the soldier took as much gold as he could carry.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Wit, valour, and politeness, were likewise proposed to be largely taxed, and collected in the same manner, by every person’s giving his own word for the quantum of what he possessed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The date on which subsequently collected data will not be considered as part of the analysis.

(Data Cutoff Date, NCI Thesaurus)