collection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
law
lifestyle
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
music
sciences
set-theory
topology
Etymology: From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem, from collēctus, from colligō (“collect together”), composed of con- + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”). Equivalen to collect + -ion.
Base: legō
Affixes: con-
Inflected forms:
form: collections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
The asteroid belt consists of a collection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.
This year's Summer Collection will include a wide range of evening wear.
He has a big collection of stamps.
He has a superb coin collection.
Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
collections of moisture
a purulent collection
Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
gloss: A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The "collectional information" one receives is ambiguous since the collection { C, E, F, G, A } occurs in the key of C and in the key of F.
In fact, students are often taught that specific collections—diatonic, octatonic, and whole-tone, etc.—typify these composers' compositional language.
Simply put, the realm of available collections in a largely diatonic environment is much smaller than it is in truly atonal one.
gloss: The activity of collecting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
gloss: A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The people here are very good to each other, too. When someone's house burned down, when someone was in the hospital, they took up collections for the people.
gloss: Debt collection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
gloss: The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
gloss: The quality of being collected; calm composure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: biocollection
capped collection
collection agency
collectional
collection box
collectioner
collectionitis
collection mailbox
collection plate
collection-plate
collection procedure
collection society
cryocollection
data collection
e-collection
fog collection
garbage collection
grievance collection
injustice collection
megacollection
microcollection
minicollection
money collection
multicollection
noncollection
overcollection
precollection
recollection
selective collection
stamp collection
subcollection
take up a collection
tax collection
type collection
undercollection
wound collection
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: հավաքածու
roman: havakʻacu
lang: Armenian
word: ժողովածու
roman: žoġovacu
lang: Bulgarian
word: сби́рка
roman: sbírka
lang: Bulgarian
word: коле́кция
roman: kolékcija
lang: Danish
word: samling
lang: Finnish
word: kokoelma
lang: French
word: collection
lang: Galician
word: colección
lang: German
word: Sammlung
lang: German
word: Kollektion
lang: German
word: Menge
lang: Hungarian
word: gyűjtemény
lang: Irish
word: bailiúchán
lang: Italian
word: raccolta
lang: Italian
word: collezione
lang: Latvian
word: krājums
lang: Latvian
word: kolekcija
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: samling
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kolleksjon
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: samling
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kolleksjon
lang: Persian
word: کلکسیون
roman: koleksyon
lang: Portuguese
word: coleção
lang: Russian
word: колле́кция
roman: kollékcija
lang: Russian
word: набо́р
roman: nabór
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cruinneachadh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: зби̑рка
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: колѐкција
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zbȋrka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kolèkcija
lang: Spanish
word: colección
lang: Spanish
word: conjunto
lang: Swedish
word: samling
lang: Telugu
word: సమూహము
roman: samūhamu
lang: Vietnamese
word: tập hợp
lang: Vietnamese
word: tập sưu tầm
lang: Volapük
word: konlet