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. Gordon Noble:

   We are digging in what is essentially the area that the Picts threw their rubbish but this collection of the waste products of their day-to-day lives is a treasure trove to archaeologists, what’s exciting is the level of preservation here. We’ve found animal bone which rarely survives in mainland Scotland because of the acidic soil. We are already getting really nice information about what people ate within the fort and we hope to extract a level of information we’ve not had for Pictish sites before.

2. Andreas Mundt:

   For Facebook to collect data when I as a user am on Facebook, that's clear. The user knows this and has to expect it, what is problematic is the collection of data in places and moments where the user can't realistically expect that data is collected by Facebook.

3. Security Center Bill Evanina:

   From a threat perspective, Russia is a significant adversary particularly with regard to cyber intrusions, malign influence, and sowing discord in our democracy, however, no country poses a broader, more severe intelligence collection threat to America than China.

4. Acting AFP Commissioner Neil Gaughan:

   No section of the community should be immune to this kind of activity or evidence collection more broadly, i reject the allegation ... that we are trying to intimidate journalists.

5. Barry Levenson:

   We have the world's largestcollection of mustards (more than6,400) and mustard memorabilia, the mustards in the museum represent all 50 states and more than 80 countries. The few Russian mustards in the collection are, for the most part, very old and are not even being made these days (I began collecting mustards in 1986).They are, like all mustards, a part of mustard history.

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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