Meaning

• To gather together; amass.

  "Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out."

• To get; particularly, get from someone.

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

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

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

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

• (often with on or against) To collect payments.

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

• To come together in a group or mass.

  "The rain collected in puddles."

• To infer; to conclude.

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

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

Meaning

• Gathered together.

  "the collected works of Charles Dickens"

• Cool‐headed, emotionally stable, in focus.

  "He stayed collected throughout the ordeal."