(v. t.) To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
(v. t.) To demand and obtain payment of, as an account, or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.
(v. t.) To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
(v. i.) To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
(v. i.) To infer; to conclude.
(v. t.) A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion, or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
Example Sentences:
(1) On both days, blood was collected by jugular venepuncture at 10.30 h, and then again 2, 4, 6 and 24 h later.
(2) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(3) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
(4) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(5) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
(6) Blood was collected from pups and dams to determine its caffeine concentration.
(7) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(8) Neither Brucella organisms, nor increased numbers of neutrophils could be found in semen samples collected from the experimental animals.
(9) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
(10) Data collection at the old hospital for comparison, however, was not always reliable.
(11) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(12) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(13) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(14) Data were collected on a sample of 131 women receiving treatment for gynecological cancer.
(15) Their efforts will include blocking the NSA from undermining encryption and barring other law enforcement agencies from collecting US data in bulk.
(16) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(17) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
(18) Group teaching compared to individualized teaching of the patients to collect their own aliquots did not appear to have a measurable effect upon the levels of bacteriuria.
(19) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(20) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
Collet
Definition:
() An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte.
(n.) A small collar or neckband.
(n.) A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.
(n.) The part of a ring containing the bezel in which the stone is set.
(n.) The flat table at the base of a brilliant. See Illust. of Brilliant.
Example Sentences:
(1) He underwent Rastelli operation at the age of 10 months with the diagnosis of truncus arteriosus (Collet & Edwards Type I).
(2) The 16 people named in the charges are: Patricia Quinn; Sean Quinn Junior; Collete Marie Quinn; Aoife Quinn; Brenda Quinn; Ciara Quinn; Paddy McKillen; Séamus Ross; Brian O'Farrell; John McCabe; Gerard Maguire; Patrick Kearney; Gerard Conlon; Gerard Gannon; Seán Reilly and Joseph O'Reilly.
(3) When two primitive PAs shared a single root, the consequence was either pulmonary trunk hypoplasia, as is seen in tetralogy of Fallot, or type I persistent truncus arteriosus (PTA) as classified by Collet and Edwards.
(4) But at this stage we’re focusing on the immediate humanitarian needs.” The head of Oxfam in Vanuatu, Colin Collet van Rooyen, said the lack of clean water and sanitation were the most pressing needs.
(5) A Collet-Sicard syndrome was observed in a 53-year-old patient with a coiling of the left internal carotid artery just below the skull base.
(6) A 71-year-old man developed unilateral palsies of the 9th through 12th cranial nerves (Collet-Sicard syndrome) due to a fracture of the occipital condyle, which was diagnosed by computed tomography.
(7) In April 1989 Collets, the left-wing bookshop, and Dillons were firebombed for stocking the Rushdie novel.
(8) In any event, Collet's argument misperceives the heuristic mode in which PCA is used in actual studies.
(9) First, since Collet's analysis was based on the correlation matrix only, it cannot disprove assumptions of PCA which do not constrain the correlation (or covariance) matrix.
(10) There were two cases which could not be classified according to the Collet and Edwards classification.
(11) Data were colleted during 2 6-hour naturalistic home observations using a modified time-sampling technique.
(12) Data on perceived community security and reported medical, social and mental coping reactions were colleted, using a simply and directly worded, precoded, stimulus-response instrument developed by the author.
(13) Using the Collet and Edwards classification, type I truncus arteriosus was the most frequent (62.5%).
(14) Her injuries were: a large left facial entrance wound with a single sinus cavity that was converted from destruction of the paranasal sinuses, a right Collet-Sicard syndrome, and a right vertebral artery pseudoaneurysm at the C1 level.
(15) A 41-year-old man experienced intense headache and neck pain, bruits, and a complete unilateral cranial nerve palsy IX-XII (Collet-Sicard syndrome) after a trivial back trauma.
(16) To increase the practicability of Ilisarov's ring fixation apparatus, we introduced the following modifications: Clamping of the fixation wires using a quick collet with a force indicator, which enables reproducibly preuse and rapid clamping.
(17) A single right ventricle with common atrioventricular (AV) valve was associated with (Collet & Edwards type II) truncus arteriosus communis, and appeared to have a single coronary artery with an abnormally high take-off near the origin of the right subclavian artery.
(18) A 67-year-old man developed paralysis of the right ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth cranial nerves (Collet-Sicard syndrome) after sustaining a closed head injury.
(19) The same does not hold true when one is confronted with Collet-Sicard's syndrome or cochleovestibular syndrome accompanied by otoliquorrhea.
(20) Six species of common desert range plants; Achillea sp., Aristida plumosa, Artemisia herba-alba, Haloxylon articulatum, and Heliotropium ramosissimum were colleted from Western Desert in Iraq.