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adjective
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having control of one's faculties; self-possessed: Despite all the turmoil around him, Bob remained calm and collected.
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brought or placed together; forming an aggregation from various sources: the money collected to build an orphanage; the collected essays of Thoreau.
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Collected
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verb (used with object)
1.
to gather together; assemble: The professor collected the students' exams.
2.
to accumulate; make a collection of: to collect stamps.
3.
to receive or compel payment of: to collect a bill.
4.
to regain control of (oneself or one's thoughts, faculties, composure, or the like): At the news of her promotion, she took a few minutes to collect herself.
5.
EXPANDto call for and take with one: He drove off to collect his guests. They collected their mail.
verb (used without object)
8.
to gather together; assemble: The students collected in the assembly hall.
9.
to accumulate: Rain water collected in the barrel.
10.
to receive payment (often followed by on): He collected on the damage to his house.
11.
to gather or bring together books, stamps, coins, etc., usually as a hobby: He's been collecting for years.
12.
Manège. (of a horse) to come into a collected attitude.
adjective, adverb
13.
requiring payment by the recipient: a collect telephone call; a telegram sent collect.
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Word Origin & History
collect
1573 (trans.), from O.Fr. collecter (1371), from L. collectus, pp. of colligere "gather together," from com- "together" + legere "to gather." The intrans. sense is attested from 1794. As an adj. meaning "paid by the recipient" it is attested from 1893, originally with ref. to telegrams.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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