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Collected vs Curate - What's the difference?

collected | curate |

As verbs the difference between collected and curate

is that collected is (collect) while curate is to act as a curator for.

As an adjective collected

is , emotionally , in focus.

As a noun curate is

an assistant rector or vicar.

collected

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • , emotionally , in focus.
    • He stayed collected throughout the ordeal.
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    • Synonyms

    * calm, cool, composed

    Verb

    (head)
  • (collect)
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    • Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.

    curate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an assistant rector or vicar
  • a parish priest
    • Derived terms
    * curate's egg

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (curat)
  • To act as a curator for.
    • She curated the traveling exhibition.
    They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.
  • To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
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  • To work or act as a curator.
    • Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.
    Derived terms
    * curated

    See also

    * ("curate" on Wikipedia)

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