Word Finder - collected

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To gather together; amass.

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Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.

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To get; particularly, get from someone.

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A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan.   A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.

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To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.

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I don't think he collects as much as hoards.

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To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)

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(often with on or against) To collect payments.

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He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.

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To come together in a group or mass.

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The rain collected in puddles.

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To infer; to conclude.

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(of a vehicle or driver) To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).

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The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.

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Gathered together.

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the collected works of Charles Dickens

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Cool‐headed, emotionally stable, in focus.

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He stayed collected throughout the ordeal.

I collected coins when I was younger.

Tears collected on her lids.

Alex collected their luggage and had it loaded in the car.

Jackson collected their glasses and poured their fourth drink.

Instead, she collected a few small photos and arranged them all in one frame.

In the outskirts is a village of Africans from the Sudan - a curious remnant of the forces collected by Ali Pasha.

His collected Works were published in 3 vols.

Where was the calm and collected man who always knew what to do?

He wrote in this connexion a number of articles collected in 1887 under the title Treu and Frei.

There are a few creatures I've collected over the years that interest me.

In this task he was much helped by the materials collected in his library.

I collected our cadre at the LeBlanc's house for discussion.

His cabin was tiny, two rooms, with the walls lined with weapons he'd collected over the years.

It was situated in such a way that it collected all the moisture from the hills and appeared to be planted in alfalfa.

The fragments are collected in the Didot edition of Arrian by Karl Muller.

In 1813-14 Rich spent some time in Europe, and on his return to Bagdad devoted himself to the study of the geography of Asia Minor, and collected much information in Syrian and Chaldaean convents concerning the Yezidis.

He avidly collected exotic, fast cars.

It is collected in accordance with a register of property (cadastre) drawn up for the most part in the first half of the 19th century, dealing with every piece of property in France, and giving its extent and value and the name of the owner.

Most of the movable paintings have since 1863 been collected in the Pinacoteca Vannucci, established in the Palazzo del Municipio; besides a considerable number of pieces by Perugino, there are specimens of Niccolo Alunno, Bonfigli, Pinturicchio, &c. A very interesting and important exhibition of Umbrian art was held here in 1907.

In each department an official collector (Trsorier payeur genral) receives the taxes and public revenue collected therein and accounts for them to the central authority in Paris.

The records preserved in each city were examined, topographical information was diligently collected, and the Jesuit fathers checked their triangulation by meridian altitudes of the sun and pole star and by a system of remeasurements.

In a few weeks he collected thousands of so-called Kuruczok (a corruption of Cruciati), consisting for the most part of small yeomen, peasants, wandering students, friars and parish priests, the humblest and most oppressed portion of the community, to whom alone a crusade against the Turk could have the slightest attraction.

Herschel marshals the evidence which can be collected on this point.

In the next experiment the air was compressed as before, and then allowed to escape through a long lead tube immersed in the water of a calorimeter, and finally collected in a bell jar.

The metal is usually obtained from the flue-dust (produced during the first three or four hours working of a zinc distillation) which is collected in the sheet iron cones or adapters of the zinc retorts.

The pope insisted upon the tax being collected according to the true value, and Boiamund returned to Scotland to superintend its collection.

The actual taxation to which this fragment refers was not the tenth collected by Boiamund but the tenth of all ecclesiastical property in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland granted by Pope Nicholas IV.

Statistics collected in 1893-1894 and 1896 revealed the existence of 1831 libraries, either private (but open to the public) or completely public. The public libraries have been enormously increased since 1870 by the incorporation of the treasures of suppressed monastic institutions.

It is proportional, and is collected by deduction from salaries and pensions paid to servants of the state, where it is assessed on three-eighths of the income, and from interest on consolidated stock, where it is assessed on the whole amount; and by register in the cases of private individuals, who pay on three-fourths of their income, professional men, capitalists or manufacturers, who pay on one-half or nine-twentieths of their income.

The failure of the strike caused the Socialists to quarrel among themselves and to accuse each other of dishonesty in the management of party funds; it appeared in fact that the large sums collected throughout Italy on behalf of the strikers had been squandered or appropriated by the syndacalist leaders.

With some associates he hired a room in the neighbouring Cato Street, collected arms and made ready to fall upon Harrowby's guests.

The Udgatri's duties being mainly confined to the chanting of hymns made up of detached groups of verses of the Rigveda, as collected in the Samaveda-samhita, the more important Brahmanas of this sacerdotal class deal chiefly with the various modes of chanting, and the modifications which the verses have to undergo in their musical setting.

He collected much valuable information on Graeco-Buddhist art and the origins of Indian art.

It is the same thought which collected in the cosmic space the divided masses into spheres, and combined these to solar systems; the same which caused the weather-beaten dust on the surface of our metallic planet to spring forth into living forms."

See this and other instances collected in Usages y demas derechos de Cataluna, by Vives y Cebria (Barcelona, 1835), tom.

Cases upon the execution of these statutes are collected in Stillingfleet, On Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, p. 189; Gibson, Codex, 83.

Pieces of amber torn from the sea-floor are cast up by the waves, and collected at ebb-tide.

The trees are regularly tapped and the coagulated latex which exudes is collected and worked up into rubber.

Ball found the temperature one inch below the surface to be 83, and he collected over forty species in flower.

The operations were carried on during eight years on a plain to the south of Quito; and, in addition to his memoir on this memorable measurement, La Condamine collected much valuable geographical information during a voyage down the Amazon.

When the pursuit of game becomes the chief occupation of a people there is of necessity a higher development of courage, skill, powers of observation and invention; and these qualities are still further enhanced in predatory tribes who take by force the food, clothing and other property prepared or collected by a feebler people.

But out of the copies of Norfolk deeds and records collected for Thomas, earl of Arundel, in the early part of the 17th century, it seems clear enough that he sprang from a Norfolk family, several of whose members held lands at Wiggenhall near Lynn.

Fleeing into the north of his kingdom James collected an army and came to terms with his foes; but the rebels, having seized the person of the king's eldest son, afterwards James IV., renewed the struggle.

His brother Ummanmenan at once collected allies and prepared for resistance to the Assyrians.

Mangabeira rubber is collected to a limited extent, and piassava fibre is an article of export.

Me`ir, but rejected much which was afterwards collected under the title of Tosefta (addition) and Baraita (outside the Mishnah).

As the existing halakhoth were collected and edited in the Mishnah, so the much larger agadic material was gathered together and arranged in the Midrashim.

Owing to the fact that the material collected by Mordecai was left to his pupils to arrange, the work was current in two recensions, an Eastern (in Austria) and a Western (in Germany, France, &c.).

His Discours were collected in 1818.

After his death Pibrac, assisted by De Thou and Scevole de Sainte-Marthe, collected a volume of the Poemata of L'Hopital, and in 1585 his grandson published Epistolarum seu Sermonum libri sex.