Difference between Collected and Gathered

Collected

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To gather together; amass.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Cool-headed, emotionally stable, in focus.

Example sentence: Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental form in capacitors, one could expect to deliver radiated energy for some time from them.

Gathered

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To collect; normally separate things.