adjective
- having control of one’s faculties; self-possessed: Despite all the turmoil around him, Bob remained calm and collected.
- brought or placed together; forming an aggregation from various sources: the money collected to build an orphanage; the collected essays of Thoreau.
- Manège.
- (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).
- (of a gait of such a horse) characterized by short, elevated strides.Compare extended(def 8b).
adjective
- not having been called for, gathered, or collected
adjective
- in full control of one’s faculties; composed
- assembled in totality or brought together into one volume or a set of volumesthe collected works of Dickens
- (of a horse or a horse’s pace) controlled so that movement is in short restricted stepsa collected canter
see cool, calm, and collected.