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collected

adj
/kəˈlɛktɪd/

Etymology

From collect + -ed.

  1. derived from *leǵ-✻
  2. derived from collecta
  3. derived from collectare
  4. derived from collecter
  5. inherited from collecten
  6. suffixed as collected — “collect + ed”

Definitions

  1. Gathered together.

    • the collected works of Charles Dickens

  2. Cool‐headed, emotionally stable, in focus.

    • He stayed collected throughout the ordeal.
    • In an instant Francesca would become perfectly collected—every past event would stand out singularly clear, and she would turn, take one look at Guido, and then breathe again.

  3. simple past and past participle of collect

    • Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.

The neighborhood

Derived

calm and collected, collectedly, collectedness, cool, calm and collected, precollected, uncollected

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at collected. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at collected. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at collected

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA