collection

col·lec·tion

(kə-lĕk′shən)

1. The act or process of collecting.

2. A group of objects or works to be seen, studied, or kept together.

3. A line of products produced for one season, as those developed by a designer: promoted the summer collection in the store window.

4. An accumulation; a deposit: a collection of dust on the piano.

a. A collecting of money, as in church.

b. The sum so collected.

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collection

(kəˈlɛkʃən)

1. the act or process of collecting

2. a number of things collected or assembled together

3. (Clothing & Fashion) a selection of clothes, esp as presented by a particular designer for a specified season

4. something gathered into a mass or pile; accumulation: a collection of rubbish.

5. a sum of money collected or solicited, as in church

6. removal, esp regular removal of letters from a postbox

7. (Education) (often plural) (at Oxford University) a college examination or an oral report by a tutor

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col•lec•tion

(kəˈlɛk ʃən)

1. the act of collecting.

2. something that is collected, as a group of objects or an amount of material accumulated in one place: a stamp collection; a collection of rainwater.

3. the works of art, specimens, or other items collected for exhibit and study in a museum, and kept as part of its holdings.

4. the clothes or other items produced by a designer, esp. for a specific season.

5. a sum of money collected, esp. for church use.

[1350–1400; Middle English (< Anglo-French) < Latin]

collection

In intelligence usage, the acquisition of information and the provision of this information to processing elements. See also intelligence process.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

Collection

a gathering of objects or of persons, as works of art, literary materials, etc.; a quantity of anything collected together into a mass; an assemblage. See also accumulation.

Examples: collection of literary material, 1460; of floating vapours, 1747; of waters, 1697; of works of art, 1651.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	collection - several things grouped together or considered as a whole aggregation, accumulation, assemblage group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit procession - the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation; "processions were forbidden" pharmacopoeia - a collection or stock of drugs string - a collection of objects threaded on a single strand wardrobe - collection of clothing belonging to one person wardrobe - collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company universe, population - (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population" armamentarium - the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine art collection - a collection of art works backlog - an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services) battery - a collection of related things intended for use together; "took a battery of achievement tests" block - a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit; "he reserved a large block of seats"; "he held a large block of the company's stock" rule book, book - a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made; "they run things by the book around here" book - a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game bottle collection - a collection of bottles; "her bottle collection is arranged on glass shelves in the window" caboodle, bunch, lot - any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole caboodle" coin collection - a collection of coins collage - any collection of diverse things; "a collage of memories" content - everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something; "he emptied the contents of his pockets"; "the two groups were similar in content" tout ensemble, ensemble - an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole corpus - a collection of writings; "he edited the Hemingway corpus" crop - a collection of people or things appearing together; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas" tenantry - tenants of an estate considered as a group findings - a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes flagging - flagstones collectively; "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place" flinders - bits and splinters and fragments; "it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage" pack - a complete collection of similar things deal, hand - the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time; "I didn't hold a good hand all evening"; "he kept trying to see my hand" long suit - in a hand, the suit having the most cards herbarium - a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study stamp collection - a collection of stamps statuary - statues collectively sum total, summation, sum - the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" agglomeration - a jumbled collection or mass gimmickry - a collection of gimmicks nuclear club - the nations possessing nuclear weapons cumulation, heap, pile, agglomerate, cumulus, mound - a collection of objects laid on top of each other mass - an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people) combination - a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities congregation - an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together; "a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; "a great congregation of birds flew over" hit parade - a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind Judaica - historical and literary materials relating to Judaism kludge - a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together) program library, subroutine library, library - (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use library - a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing mythology - myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person biota, biology - all the plant and animal life of a particular region fauna, zoology - all the animal life in a particular region or period; "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch"
	2.	collection - a publication containing a variety of works compendium publication - a copy of a printed work offered for distribution anthology - a collection of selected literary passages archives - collection of records especially about an institution compilation, digest - something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
	3.	collection - request for a sum of money; "an appeal to raise money for starving children" ingathering, solicitation, appeal petition, request, postulation - a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority whip-round - (British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose
	4.	collection - the act of gathering something together assembling, collecting, aggregation grouping - the activity of putting things together in groups agglomeration - the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating collation - assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence compiling, compilation - the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list); "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours" gather, gathering - the act of gathering something bottle collection - the activity of collecting bottles; "bottle collection is a hobby of hers" conchology, shell collecting - the collection and study of mollusc shells coin collecting, numismatics, numismatology, coin collection - the collection and study of money (and coins in particular) pickup - the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places; "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays" philately, stamp collecting, stamp collection - the collection and study of postage stamps tax collection - the collection of taxes

collection

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collection

noun

1. A number of individuals making up or considered a unit:

array, band, batch, bevy, body, bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, clutch, group, knot, lot, party, set.

2. A quantity accumulated:

Translations

sbírkavybíránísběrsbírání

samlingtømning

kogukogumine

kokoelma

zbirkaskupljanje

gyûjteménygyûjtés

safnsöfnun

コレクション

수집

vyberanie pošty zo schránkyzbierka

pobiranjezbirka

insamlingsamlasamling

สิ่งที่สะสมไว้

bộ sưu tập

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collection

[kəˈlɛkʃ^ən] n

[goods ordered] → ramassage f
to be ready for collection → être prêt(e)collection box n (US)

(in church) → tronc m

(portable) → caisse fcollection plate n (in church) → plateau m pour la quêtecollection point n (in large store) → point m de retrait des achats

collection

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collect

(kəˈlekt) verb

1. to bring or come together; to gather. People are collecting in front of the house; I collect stamps; I'm collecting (money) for cancer research; He's trying to collect his thoughts.

2. to call for and take away. She collects the children from school each day.

colˈlected adjective

1. gathered together in one book etc. the collected poems of Robert Burns.

2. composed; cool. She appeared quite calm and collected.

colˈlection (-ʃən) noun

1. (an) act of collecting. Your letter won't get to London tomorrow – you've missed the last collection (= of mail from a postbox) for today.

2. a set of objects etc collected. a stamp collection.

colˈlective (-tiv) adjective

1. of a number of people etc combined into one group. This success was the result of a collective effort.

2. of a noun, taking a singular verb but standing for many things taken as a whole. `Cattle' is a collective noun.

noun

a farm or organization run by a group of workers for the good of all of them.

colˈlectively adverb

They were collectively responsible for the man's death.

colˈlector noun

a person who collects, as a job or as a hobby. a ticket-collector / stamp-collector.

collection

→ مَجْمُوعَة sbírka samling Sammlung συλλογή colección, recogida kokoelma collection zbirka collezione コレクション 수집 verzameling samling zbiór coleção коллекция insamling สิ่งที่สะสมไว้ koleksiyon bộ sưu tập 收藏

collection

n recolección f, colección f; blood — recolección or colección de sangre