collected
part of speech
verb (collect, collects, collected, collecting); adjective (collected — calm)
meaning for a pupil
1) Collected is the past of collect: gathered together. tree →
2) Collected stamps or cards are ones someone has kept as a hobby. tree →
3) Collected can also mean calm and in control. tree →
sense in the lessons
maths: things gathered and added, often over several days («in all» asks for the sum); data collected in science and surveys; school: the teacher collected the homework; stories: she stayed calm and collected
examples
- They collected 45 cans on Monday and 30 on Tuesday. tree →
- She collected 12 leaves. tree →
- How many stamps were collected in all? tree →
- He collected twice as many as Sam. tree →
- The teacher collected our tests. tree →
- We collected data on the weather for a week. tree →
- Dad collected us after the party. tree →
- She stayed cool and collected in the storm. tree →
- “Have you collected my tribute from Denmark?” tree →
note
Collected amounts are added. Trap: «in all» asks for the sum of all days or people. «Twice as many as Sam» means Sam's amount × 2.
In the corpora
- People designed AI, collected its text, built its computers and trained it, so people are responsible for it.
- Photos posted publicly can be collected and used to make fakes; you may ask family not to post yours.
- Coins thrown into a wishing fountain are usually collected for charity, so they still belong to someone.
- Before they started, Mia's mum had collected everyone's phones in the fruit bowl, and nobody missed them once.
- She feels like a parcel being collected.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «collected» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.