(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.
Shoal
Definition:
(n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
(v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
(a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
(n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
(n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
(v. i.) To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
(v. t.) To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep.
Example Sentences:
(1) China and the Philippines had a tense maritime standoff at a shoal west of the main Philippine island of Luzon early this year.
(2) Among their choicest memories from last year, they tell me, are watching shoals of goldfish swim down their street, and coming home to find Derrick's model boat collection bobbing on the deluge.
(3) Philippine fishing vessels are back in the waters of Scarborough Shoal.
(4) Christian Rynning-Tønnesen, chief executive of Statkraft, the Norwegian power utility that has invested in Sheringham Shoal, said the UK's wind resources and regulatory regime made it the most attractive location in Europe for offshore wind investors.
(5) As additional criteria the shoaling behaviour of the fishes is quantified and evaluated by the system.
(6) The MCS said the best choice now is Cornish mackerel caught by "hand-line", with British, European or Norwegian mackerel that is "pelagic-caught" – caught in shoals – as the best alternative.
(7) The people of Great Britain, with the co-ordination of a shoal of mullet, didn’t just put the Lewisham and Greenwich choir in with a bullet, they made sure to buy enough of Bieber’s own work that his generous spirit would be rewarded with chart spots two, three and five.
(8) But now, of course, everyone's doing it – and if you can really contemplate spending an entire evening out of your painfully short life watching Ocean Colour Scene plod through Moseley Shoals then, honestly, get some help.
(9) Last week, a shoal of headlines further indicated that for our young (and the United Nations defines "young" as under 25), the report card continues to read: "Could do very much better."
(10) Manila regards Second Thomas Shoal, which lies 105 nautical miles (195 km) southwest of the Philippine region of Palawan, as being within its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
(11) Isolated individuals detached from the shoals become immobile from the moment in which they separate from the bacterial group they belonged to ("immunobilization reaction").
(12) Davey attended the opening of the UK's latest offshore windfarm off the north Norfolk coast on Thursday, a £1.2bn projected called Sheringham Shoal .
(13) It was like a horror movie … he kept trying to talk,” Shoals said.
(14) He was widely regarded as having the right experience, deft touch and nous to navigate the shoals and shifting currents of continental politics that would buffet the British ship of state as it left its European berth.
(15) The highly automated system allows to quantify and assess changes in the behaviour patterns of a small shoal of test fishes.
(16) He saw a shoal of porpoises and a stormy petrel skimming over the waves and read "Humboldt's glowing accounts of tropical scenery.
(17) His team has seen humpbacks “lunge feeding”, where the whales rise up under giant shoals and take hundreds of thousands of pounds of fish into their mouths in one gulp, filtering out the seawater through their baleen grills and swallowing the fish.
(18) The film was shot near coral reefs that fringe the tiny Pescador Island where huge shoals of sardines draw sharks to the area.
(19) The Philippine navy is quietly reinforcing the hull and deck of a rusting ship it ran aground on a disputed South China Sea reef in 1999 to stop it breaking apart, determined to hold the shoal as Beijing creates a string of man-made islands nearby.
(20) If there are more bilateral negotiations between China and other claimants then a Trump administration, heavily occupied with North Korea and Isis, won’t be elevating disputes over shoals and reefs in south-east Asia.