Meaning of collection | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
   countable, uncountable
2. Charge.
3. The act to collect.
4. A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
   countable, uncountable
5. a farm or organization run by a group of workers for the good of all of them. gemeenskapsplaas, kibboets مَزْرَعَه تَعاوُنِيَّه колектив cooperativa družstvo das Kollektiv kollektiv; kollektivfarm κολεκτίβα cooperativa ühismajand مزرعه یا هرگونه تشکیلات اشتراکی kollektiivi collectif מֶשֶק שִיתוּפִי सहकारी कृषि या संगठन kolektiv farm kolektif samyrkja, samyrkjubú collettivo 集団農場 (など) 공동체, 집단농장 bendrovė, kolektyvas kolektīvs usaha sama collectiefkollektiv, samvirkespółdzielnia مزرعه، پټى cooper...
6. Sum of all the collected.
7. The activity of collecting.
   countable, uncountable
8. They were collectively responsible for the man's death. gesamentlik بِصورَةٍ جَماعِيَّه общо coletivamente kolektivně, společně gemeinsam kollektivt; fælles; samlet συλλογικά colectivamente kollektiivselt مشترکاً؛ دسته جمعی yhdessä collectivement בְּצוּרָה משוּתֶפֶת सामुहिक रूप से kolektivan, skupan közösen secara kolektif sameiginlega collettivamente 集合的に 집단적으로 bendrai, kolektyviai kolektīvi; kopīgi bertanggungjawab gezamenlijkkollektivt zbiorowo دله ایز colectivamente cu toţii сообща spoloč...
9. A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
   countable, uncountable
10. a person who collects, as a job or as a hobby. a ticket-collector / stamp-collector. versamelaar جامِع الأشْياء колекционер colecionador sběratel der/die Sammler(in) samler συλλέκτηςcoleccionista koguja کلکسیونر keräilijä collectionneur/-euse אספן, גובה जमाकर्ता sabirač, sakupljač, kolekcionar gyűjtő kolektor safnari collezionista 収集家 수집가 rinkėjas, kolekcionierius, (bilietų) kontrolierius iekasētājs; (biļešu) kontrolieris; kolekcionārs pengumpul verzamelaarsamler; oppkrever, inkassator zbiera...
11. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
    countable, uncountable
12. The act or process of collecting.
13. Debt collection.
    countable, uncountable
14. A group of objects or works to be seen, studied, or kept together.
15. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
16. A line of products produced for one season, as those developed by a designer: promoted the summer collection in the store window.
17. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
    UK, countable, uncountable
18. An accumulation; a deposit: a collection of dust on the piano.
19. A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
    countable, plural-normally, uncountable
20. A collecting of money, as in church.
21. The quality of being collected; calm composure.
    countable, uncountable
22. the act or process of collecting
23. a number of things collected or assembled together

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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.”

“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.”

“Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.”

“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.”

“We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.”

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