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Picked vs Collected - What's the difference?

picked | collected |

As verbs the difference between picked and collected

is that picked is (pick) while collected is (collect).

As adjectives the difference between picked and collected

is that picked is (obsolete) pointed; sharp while collected is , emotionally , in focus.

picked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pick)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) pointed; sharp
  • * Chapman
    • Picked and polished.
  • * Mortimer
    • Let the stake be made picked at the top.
  • (zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
    • the picked dogfish
  • (obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
  • * 1590 , , V. i. 13:
    • He is too / picked , too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
  • * 1596 , , I. i. 193:
    • Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
    (Webster 1913)

    collected

    English

    Adjective

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

    • Synonyms

    * calm, cool, composed

    Verb

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