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/kəlˈɛkʃən/ Listen

noun

Collection n.

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

That which is collected; as:

(a)

A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters."

(b)

A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings. "The collection for the saints."

(c)

(Usually in pl.) That which is obtained in payment of demands.

(d)

An accumulation of any substance. "Collections of moisture." "A purulent collection."

The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. (Obs.) "We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines."

The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. (Eng.)

Synonyms: Gathering; assembly; assemblage; group; crowd; congregation; mass; heap; compilation.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Collection" Quotes from Famous Books

... collection of geological specimens and fossils from Berberah above mentioned, Lieut. Burton states that the latter are found on the plain of Berberah, and the former in the following order between the sea and the summits of mountains (600 feet high), above it—that ...

— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton

... a cheer had arisen. A young man in a broad- brimmed cowboy hat ran about taking up a collection. People crowded forward to grasp Sam's hand and he had accepted the money collected and had put it in ...

— Windy McPherson's Son • Sherwood Anderson

... and it was not until her father had spoken twice to her, and had told her that he was expecting somebody, that she moved. She then ran upstairs into a storeroom, and was there for half an hour in the cold. The book was left open when she went away, and Tom looked at it. It was a collection of poems by all kinds of people, and the one over which she had been poring was about a man who had shot an albatross. Tom studied it, but could make nothing of it, and yet this was what had so much interested her! "O God!" he said to ...

— Catharine Furze • Mark Rutherford

... Chess Masterpieces: Comprising—A Collection of 156 Choice Games of the past quarter of a century, with notes, including the finest Games in the Exhibition of 1851, and in the Vienna Tournament of 1873, with excellent specimens of the styles of Anderssen, Blackburne, ...

— Chess History and Reminiscences • H. E. Bird

... pays the remaining ten as soon as he is able. No distance of time will be any excuse to the society for his refusal to comply with this honourable law. Nor will he be considered as a full member, as I observed before, till he has paid the uttermost farthing; for no collection for the poor, nor any legacy for the poor, or for other services of the society, will be received from his purse, while any thing remains of the former debt. This rule of refusing charitable contributions on such occasions, is founded on the principle ...

— A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume II (of 3) • Thomas Clarkson

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