collection
IPA: kʌɫˈɛkʃʌn
noun
- A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
- (music) A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
- The activity of collecting.
- (set theory, topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
- A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
- (law) Debt collection.
- (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
- (UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- (Oxford University, usually in the plural) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
- The quality of being collected; calm composure.
Examples of "collection" in Sentences
- This is part of the data collection for the nomination dossier.
- A guy with a 50 image porn collection has * no porn collection*.
- Vergeer has a chance to add to her title collection Saturday when she plays Van Koot for the singles trophy.
- This collection is the place to start, even though my favourite story is "The Man Whom the Trees Loved", where a wife finds herself powerless to save her husband from the trees he loves.
- Drupal Mongo API $collection = mongodb_collection ( 'myname'); $collection - find (array ( 'key' = $value)); $collection-insert ($object); $collection - remove (array ( '_id' = $item-id));
- The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, houses more of Salvador Dalí's famed masterworks than any other museum in the world, and the collection is the largest in the world outside of Spain.
- His first couture collection for the label was not well received, with the designer himself playing up to his irreverent image by describing the collection to Vogue in October 1997 as "crap".
- Like the earlier Maps in A Mirror, this collection is a definitive retrospective of the short fiction career of the writer that The Houston Post called “the best writer science fiction has to offer.”
- Dryden; but the fact is, _I did not know that Dryden's version existed_; for having undertaken to complete those of the Canterbury Tales which were wanting in Ogle's collection, and the tale in question _not being in that collection_, I proceeded to supply it, having never till very lately, strange as it may seem, _seen the volume of Dryden's Fables in which it may be found_!! "
- Johnson of Cheshire: that he was himself likely the compiler of the four parts of _The Merry-Thought_ and that, whatever the individual versifiers may have intended, this infamous collection of graffiti -- _as collection_ -- shares very closely with Johnson’s other work a spirit of wild variety, eccentric juxtaposition, and essential anarchism that is meant to lead, not to clever parody of polite literature, but to a new, almost apocalyptic vision of the sublime.
- In fact the Academy did, in 1890, enter into an agreement to "give, grant, assign, transfer, convey, and make over" to the State its collection of antiquities; but the agreement also specified that the "charge and custody of the said collection shall remain with the said Royal Irish Academy, subject to such regulations and directions as may from time to time be prescribed by the [State] but so as to leave the Royal Academy as unfettered in the charge and management of the Museum [collection] as circumstances will allow."