Collection

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  • noun. The act or process of collecting.
  • noun. A group of objects or works to be seen, studied, or kept together.
  • noun. A line of products produced for one season, as those developed by a designer.
  • noun. An accumulation; a deposit.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A collecting of money, as in church.
  • noun. The sum so collected.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act or practice of collecting or of gathering together: as, the collection of rare books.
  • noun. An assemblage or gathering of objects; a number of things collected, gathered, or brought together; a number of objects considered as constituting one whole of which the single objects are parts: as, a collection of pictures; a collection of essays; a collection of minerals.
  • noun. Specifically A sum of money collected for religious or charitable purposes, especially during a religious service.
  • noun. The act of deducing consequences; inference from premises; that which is deduced or inferred; an inference; sometimes, specifically, an inductive inference.
  • noun. A private examination at the end of each term at the colleges of the English universities.
  • noun. The act of receiving or compelling payment of dues, public or private, as for taxes, customs duties, or personal debts.
  • noun. The jurisdiction of a collector; a collectorship. See collector, 3.
  • noun. Synonyms Assemblage, group, crowd, mass, lot, heap; compilation, selection.
  • noun. Contribution.
  • noun. In logic, many independent or discrete objects regarded as a single object composed of these objects.
  • noun. A plural object: an individual object whose existence consists in the existence of whatever individuals may have been mentally connected and regarded as parts of it.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or process of collecting or of gathering.
  • noun. That which is collected.
  • noun. A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.
  • noun. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.
  • noun. That which is obtained in payment of demands.
  • noun. An accumulation of any substance.
  • noun. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
  • noun. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A set of items or objects procured or gathered together by a person, group, or other agent.
  • noun. Multiple related objects associated as a group.
  • noun. The activity of collecting.
  • noun. A set of sets.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. request for a sum of money
  • noun. the act of gathering something together
  • noun. a publication containing a variety of works
  • noun. several things grouped together or considered as a whole
  • Word Usage
    "His first couture collection for the label was not well received, with the designer himself playing up to his irreverent image by describing the ­collection to Vogue in October 1997 as "crap". ­"
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    array  book  copy  list  number  
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