(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.
Sheaf
Definition:
(n.) A sheave.
(n.) A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.
(n.) Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four.
(v. t.) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.
(v. i.) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.
Example Sentences:
(1) Buy what you love, there is no guarantee you will make money from it,” warns Sheaf.
(2) They consist of cylinders of cytoplasm (about 550 A in diameter) arranged in sheafs within cisterns of the endoplasmic reticulum.
(3) "Ms Kanelli got up first ... hitting him unprovoked in the face with a sheaf of documents," it said.
(4) Birefringent needlelike crystals in rosette or wheat-sheaf-like arrangements were found in pulmonary cytology specimens from 11 of 65 patients who had either sputum cultures positive for Aspergillus or histologically confirmed pulmonary aspergilloma.
(5) His press officer watches attentively, holding a clipboard and a thick sheaf of documents.
(6) Auction houses have taken enormous strides to make it accessible for everybody.” You can view upcoming sales online and visit the auction house to talk to experts, Sheaf says.
(7) President Ghani is an impressive technocrat with a worked-out sheaf of projects for social and economic renewal.
(8) We conclude that the presence of birefringent needlelike crystals with rosette or wheat-sheaf-like arrangements in pulmonary cytology specimens is a reliable marker for the presence of Aspergillus infection, which may be detected before cultures are positive or a fungus ball is evident on X ray.
(9) Vaz, waving a sheaf of printed emails about cases referred to him by other MPs, revealed that he had texted the home secretary on Saturday to resolve a problem facing one of his constituents.
(10) Since 2009, the attorneys at the Justice Department’s pardon office have received more than 30,000 applications, each a hefty sheaf of facts, claims, counterclaims and technicalities.
(11) She is juggling a sheaf of worries about her children; some pressing, others less immediate but more disturbing to a mother.
(12) All you would need to convert them from homebrew approximations to the actual stuff is a factory, a skilled workforce, some raw materials and a sheaf of legal certifications.
(13) And second, it presents her as a professional woman writer; there are pens on the table, a sheaf of paper.
(14) Just because a coin is old, it doesn’t make it valuable.” ■ Art and antiques Investing in art and antiques might sound daunting, but Colin Sheaf, chairman of Bonhams UK and Asai, says things have changed.
(15) A clearer and less destructive treaty than the text that emerged would be a sheaf of blank paper, which every negotiating party solemnly sits down to sign.
(16) Come on kids ... [Film of the Sex Pistols in action is shown; then back to Grundy] Grundy: I am told that that group [hits his knee with sheaf of papers] have received £40,000 from a record company.
(17) Rather like the run that had the culture secretary state clearly at last year’s Edinburgh TV festival he had no plans to privatise Channel 4, only for a civil servant from his department to be photographed not long after with a sheaf of papers outlining the logistics of embarking on such a move.
(18) The round Mongolian structure has a gaily painted red door and sheafs of herbs hanging from the ceiling.
(19) McConnell cites a sheaf of shocking statistics: 28% of UK children (3.5 million) live in poverty; one in four eats crisps or sweets for breakfast; the same proportion has hot meals only at school; and 100,000 primary pupils a day begin classes without having eaten.
(20) The official photo shows the EU side on the left: two women and one man, each with a hefty sheaf of papers, a pen poised.