What's the difference between collect and recollect?

Collect


Definition:

  • (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.

Recollect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To recover or recall the knowledge of; to bring back to the mind or memory; to remember.
  • (v. t.) Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle.
  • (n.) A friar of the Strict Observance, -- an order of Franciscans.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Analytic therapy aims at converting transference as repetition of behaviour into recollection.
  • (2) Few of us will have reliable memories from before three or four years of age, and recollections from before that time need to be treated with scepticism.
  • (3) Back to article (4) Here I asked him about Barry White, a Desert Island Disc choice of his in 1978, which he had no recollection of.
  • (4) The television commercial, merely demanding a passive involvement of the participants, was less well remembered, and the magazine insert had the lowest recollection.
  • (5) Eckert said Mersiades, who is not named but is easy to identify from the summary report, provided “some useful information” but claimed “the evidence did not support its specific recollections and allegations” and “further undermined its own reliability” by speaking to the media.
  • (6) My recollections of the one execution I attended amount to memories of a ghastly, surrealistic encounter with justice.
  • (7) 50 yrs ago today, we set out to march from Selma to Montgomery to dramatize to the nation that people of color were denied the right to vote,” he wrote, before posting a series of photos and recollections from the day.
  • (8) Heaton’s recollections are heavy on understatement.
  • (9) Some speculations about the inner life of autistic children are advanced on the basis of his recollections.
  • (10) Compromise recollections, though seemingly more persuasive, are both rare and interpretable without postulating blend representations.
  • (11) – but Russell happily slips in and out of voices and lines from the movie, his recollections punctuated by wistful sighs.
  • (12) During his evidence, Clark will also challenge the recollection of Rob Whiteman, the agency's chief executive, who claimed that Clark had admitted to him that on "a number of occasions this year he authorised his staff to go further than ministerial instruction".
  • (13) David Henry, then head of investor relations, was “stunned” at the family’s concern about climate change, according to Goodwin’s recollection of events.
  • (14) A spokesman for Crosby said he had "absolutely no recollection" of using the phrase "fucking Muslims" and Johnson's office also said the London mayor had no recollection of this conversation.
  • (15) • With the funeral preparations now advanced, notables continue to share recollections of the baroness.
  • (16) This effect was observed with college students and amnesic patients, suggesting that word completion performance is mediated by implicit memory for new associations that is independent of explicit recollection.
  • (17) Amnesics' difficulty in recollecting events (and partially learned facts) from before the onset of their disease (retrograde amnesia) is explicable in terms of interference between current events and prior events in similar contexts in patients who are unduly controlled by their current context.
  • (18) Despite recognition that estimation of gestational age (GA) based on maternal recollection of the last normal menstrual period (LNMP) is fraught with error, it is not generally appreciated that the magnitude and direction of this error vary as a function of the LNMP estimate.
  • (19) This indicates that the motor zones of the cortex, including the frontal adversive fields, are intention zones, and the sensory zones reproduction, expectation, and recollection zones.
  • (20) With traditional techniques of quality improvement, the process was assessed, data were collected and statistically analyzed, changes were introduced, and data were recollected and analyzed.