collection
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1.9
- noun
- /kəˈlɛkʃən/
:
recolección
- She started a collection of stamps from around the world during her travels.
- data collection
- data collection
- collection and analysis
It's, it's just like people with the equipment to do the data collection don't want to help out.
- It's, it's just like people with the equipment to do the data collection don't want to help out.
- That was all due to my team's intelligence collection.
- Well, we would have to get DNA right to prove that into our collection process.
Examples
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Could you bring me back a hunk of the Washington Monument for my rock collection?
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Sure, take a look at the new Bigweld spring collection.
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OK, not one function, but a whole collection of functions.
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The start of the new collection is both exciting and scary.
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So now my collection, which was going down has now been topped up.
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You are looking at the most comprehensive bird's egg collection in the world.
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I got a really neat record collection.
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This man's putting quite a collection together.
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The third thing that I asked for was a collection from Carthage, Tunisia.
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We also used this opportunity to weed the collection of damaged, obsolete, or unused books.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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2.1
A group of things used or kept together
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1.4
An act of collecting people or things into one place
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3.5
A collection of different things, like books or food
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3.4
A group of things gathered in one place over time
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3.5
A collection of songs, stories, and data gathered into one book or album
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6.1
A group of things joined together as one whole
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5.5
A group of things put together, like parts or materials
7
7.4
A group of different things gathered in one place
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8.6
A group of things or people gathered together
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9.9
A set of things sold or used together for one price
Getting and keeping things as a hobby or for a purpose
Bringing parts or people together to make one whole
A pile of things gathered together
Antonyms
Compounds
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3.5
A group of works of art such as paintings and sculptures kept or shown together
- Specialized
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3.8
An automatic process that frees memory no longer used by a program
How Organized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Collection comes from the Latin parts com- 'together' and legere 'to gather'. That is why a collection can mean the action of bringing things together for a purpose, such as gathering data or taxes.