collected

[ kuh-lek-tid ]

adjective

1. having control of one's faculties; self-possessed:

   Despite all the turmoil around him, Bob remained calm and collected.

2. brought or placed together; forming an aggregation from various sources:

   the money collected to build an orphanage; the collected essays of Thoreau.

3. Manège.
   1. (of a moving horse) noting a compact pose in which the legs are well under the body, the head is arched at the poll, the jaw is relaxed, etc. Compare extended ( def 8a ).
   2. (of a gait of such a horse) characterized by short, elevated strides. Compare extended ( def 8b ).

collected

/ kəˈlɛktɪd /

adjective

1. in full control of one's faculties; composed
2. assembled in totality or brought together into one volume or a set of volumes

   the collected works of Dickens

3. (of a horse or a horse's pace) controlled so that movement is in short restricted steps

   a collected canter

Derived Forms

• colˈlectedly, adverb
• colˈlectedness, noun

Other Words From

• col·lected·ly adverb
• col·lected·ness noun
• uncol·lected adjective
• well-col·lected adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of collected¹

First recorded in 1600–10; collect ¹ + -ed ²

Idioms and Phrases

see cool, calm, and collected .

Synonym Study

See calm.

Example Sentences

Data collected by companies are often sold to data brokers or groups that buy, sell and trade data from the internet to create detailed consumer profiles.

From Los Angeles Times

Led by Dr. Shohei Kuraoka and his team at Southern Kyushu and Okinawa Unit Center of Japan Environment and Children's Study, researchers measured 24 types of phenols in urine samples collected from pregnant women.

From Science Daily

He was a lowly lab assistant at the Pasteur Institute in Paris when he first collected the data that would lead to the discovery of bacteriophages.

From Salon

Unlike previously reported porous organic crystals, the Janus crystals combine water-collection and water-delivery functions at their surface, creating a highly efficient water harvesting process that maximizes the amount of collected water at ambient conditions.

From Science Daily

The research team continues to analyze brain imaging and cognitive data that was collected to evaluate the intervention's neural and cognitive effects.

From Science Daily