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Adjective collected has 3 senses
- collected, gathered - brought together in one place; "the collected works of Milton"; "the gathered folds of the skirt"
Antonyms: uncollected, ungathered
- accumulated, amassed, assembled, collected, congregate, massed - brought together into a group or crowd; "the accumulated letters in my office"
Antonym: distributed (indirect, via concentrated)
- 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"
Antonym: discomposed (indirect, via composed)
Verb collect has 5 senses
- 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"
--1 is one way to store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away
Sample sentence:
The crowds collect in the streets
- collect, take in - call for and obtain payment of; "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent"
--2 is one way to take
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody
- gather, garner, collect, pull together - assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- collect, pull in - get or bring together; "accumulate evidence"
--4 is one way to roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- 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"
--5 is one way to get, acquire
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
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