Definitions for Collection
kəˈlɛk ʃəncol·lec·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblagenoun

   several things grouped together or considered as a whole

2. collection, compendiumnoun

   a publication containing a variety of works

3. solicitation, appeal, collection, ingatheringnoun

   request for a sum of money

   "an appeal to raise money for starving children"

4. collection, collecting, assembling, aggregationnoun

   the act of gathering something together

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. collectionnoun

   A set of items or objects procured or gathered together by a person, group, or other agent.

2. collectionnoun

   A set of sets.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Collectionnoun

   Etymology: from collect.

   1. The act of gathering together.2. An assemblage; the things gathered.

   No perjur’d knight desires to quit thy arms,
   Fairest collection of thy sex’s charms. Matthew Prior.

   The gallery is hung with a numerous collection of pictures. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

   3. The act of deducing consequences; ratiocination; discourse. This sense is now scarce in use.

   If once we descend unto probable collections, we are then in the territory where free and arbitrary determinations, the territory where human laws take place. Richard Hooker, b. i. s. 8.

   4. A corollary; a consectary deduced from premises; deduction; consequence.

   It should be a weak collection, if whereas we say, that when Christ had overcome the sharpness of death, he then opened the kingdom of Heaven to all believers; a thing in such sort affirmed with circumstance, were taken as insinuating an opposite denial before that circumstance be accomplished. Richard Hooker.

   This label
   Is so from sense in hardness, that I can
   Make no collection of it. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

   When she, from sundry arts, one skill doth draw;
   Gath’ring from divers fights, one act of war;
   From many cases like, one rule of law:
   These her collections, not the senses are. Davies.

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1. collection

   A collection is a group or assemblage of items that share common features or characteristics, gathered systematically over a period of time. These items can be physical objects, data, information, or memories. The term can also refer to the activity of gathering or accumulating these items. Collections can be created for study, comparison, exhibition, or personal enjoyment.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Collectionnoun

   the act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens

2. Collectionnoun

   that which is collected

3. Collectionnoun

   a gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons

4. Collectionnoun

   a gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings

5. Collectionnoun

   that which is obtained in payment of demands

6. Collectionnoun

   an accumulation of any substance

7. Collectionnoun

   the act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred

8. Collectionnoun

   the jurisdiction of a collector of excise

WikidataRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

1. Collection

   Collection is a greatest hits album by Tracy Chapman, it features tracks from her first five studio albums. The tracks include her two U.S. Top Tens, "Fast Car" and "Give Me One Reason". Other charted singles on this album include "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Crossroads", "Telling Stories", and "Baby Can I Hold You".

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. collection

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

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. collection

   a set of items

   
   

   Submitted by frank_taylor on November 6, 2022  

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   collection

   The act and process of to collect.

   The collection point at the shop was clearly identified.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 19, 2020  

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1. • Group
   • Publication
   • Request

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Collection' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1276

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Collection' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3074

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Collection' in Nouns Frequency: #468

How to pronounce Collection?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Collection in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Collection in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Collection in a Sentence

1. Washington Irving:

   The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

2. Michael Caputo:

   Today, CDC has access to all the data it once had and more. National Healthcare Safety Network was unable to keep up with the fast-paced data collection demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, using this new, innovative and flexible collection mechanism, we have far more COVID-related real data, far faster, giving us increased capacity for life-saving projects like therapeutics distribution. And we are now poised to move to automated data collection for the use of every relevant expert at HHS, particularly The CDC.

3. Donald Trump:

   Just today I heard, just a little while ago, that Devin Nunes had a news conference, did you hear about this, where they have a lot of information on tapping. Did you hear about that? house intelligence chairman Devin Nunes told reporters, wow. Nunes said, so that means I'm right, Nunes said the surveillance appears to have been ... incidental collection, that does not appear to have been related to concerns over Russia.

4. Mike Lee:

   The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.

5. Tracey Nicol-Lewis:

   I still can't believe that I have much in my collection, when it's all around your room and you see it every day, it's only when someone comes in and sees it and they're like 'oh that's a lot!’.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Collection
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Collection
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Collection
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Collection
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Collection
7. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf