"collected" in the verb sense
1. roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard
get or gather together
"I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"
"She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"
"She rolled up a small fortune"
2. collect, take in
call for and obtain payment of
"we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"
"he collected the rent"
3. gather, garner, collect, pull together
assemble or get together
"gather some stones"
"pull your thoughts together"
4. collect, pull in
get or bring together
"accumulate evidence"
5. collect, pick up, gather up, call for
gather or collect
"You can get the results on Monday"
"She picked up the children at the day care center"
"They pick up our trash twice a week"
"collected" in the adjective sense
1. collected, gathered
brought together in one place
"the collected works of Milton"
"the gathered folds of the skirt"
2. collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed
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"
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