| collection | | |
| n. (group) | 1. accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection | several things grouped together or considered as a whole. |
| ~ group, grouping | any number of entities (members) considered as a unit. |
| ~ procession | the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation.; "processions were forbidden" |
| ~ pharmacopoeia | a collection or stock of drugs. |
| ~ string | a collection of objects threaded on a single strand. |
| ~ wardrobe | collection of clothing belonging to one person. |
| ~ wardrobe | collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company. |
| ~ universe, population | (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn.; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population" |
| ~ armamentarium | the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine. |
| ~ art collection | a collection of art works. |
| ~ backlog | an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services). |
| ~ battery | a collection of related things intended for use together.; "took a battery of achievement tests" |
| ~ block | a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit.; "he reserved a large block of seats"; "he held a large block of the company's stock" |
| ~ rule book, book | a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made.; "they run things by the book around here" |
| ~ book | a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game. |
| ~ bottle collection | a collection of bottles.; "her bottle collection is arranged on glass shelves in the window" |
| ~ caboodle, bunch, lot | any collection in its entirety.; "she bought the whole caboodle" |
| ~ coin collection | a collection of coins. |
| ~ collage | any collection of diverse things.; "a collage of memories" |
| ~ content | everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something.; "he emptied the contents of his pockets"; "the two groups were similar in content" |
| ~ tout ensemble, ensemble | an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole. |
| ~ corpus | a collection of writings.; "he edited the Hemingway corpus" |
| ~ crop | a collection of people or things appearing together.; "the annual crop of students brings a new crop of ideas" |
| ~ tenantry | tenants of an estate considered as a group. |
| ~ findings | a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes. |
| ~ flagging | flagstones collectively.; "there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place" |
| ~ flinders | bits and splinters and fragments.; "it would have shattered in flinders long before it did that damage" |
| ~ pack | a complete collection of similar things. |
| ~ deal, hand | the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time.; "I didn't hold a good hand all evening"; "he kept trying to see my hand" |
| ~ long suit | in a hand, the suit having the most cards. |
| ~ herbarium | a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study. |
| ~ stamp collection | a collection of stamps. |
| ~ statuary | statues collectively. |
| ~ sum total, sum, summation | the final aggregate.; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" |
| ~ agglomeration | a jumbled collection or mass. |
| ~ gimmickry | a collection of gimmicks. |
| ~ nuclear club | the nations possessing nuclear weapons. |
| ~ cumulation, heap, pile, agglomerate, cumulus, mound | a collection of objects laid on top of each other. |
| ~ mass | an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people). |
| ~ combination | a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities. |
| ~ congregation | an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together.; "a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; "a great congregation of birds flew over" |
| ~ hit parade | a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind. |
| ~ judaica | historical and literary materials relating to Judaism. |
| ~ kludge | a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together). |
| ~ program library, subroutine library, library | (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use. |
| ~ library | a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing. |
| ~ mythology | myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person. |
| ~ nag hammadi library, nag hammadi | a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism. |
| ~ biota, biology | all the plant and animal life of a particular region. |
| ~ fauna, zoology | all the animal life in a particular region or period.; "the fauna of China"; "the zoology of the Pliocene epoch" |
| ~ petting zoo | a collection of docile animals for children to pet and feed. |
| ~ set | a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used.; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth" |
| ~ victoriana | collection of materials of or characteristic of the Victorian era. |
| ~ category, class, family | a collection of things sharing a common attribute.; "there are two classes of detergents" |
| ~ job lot | a miscellaneous collection of things sold together. |
| ~ bundle, package, packet, parcel | a collection of things wrapped or boxed together. |
| ~ defense lawyers, defense team, defence, defense | the defendant and his legal advisors collectively.; "the defense called for a mistrial" |
| ~ prosecution | the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant. |
| ~ planting | a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area.; "the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner" |
| ~ signage | signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters).; "there will be signage displayed at each post" |
| ~ gaap, generally accepted accounting principles | a collection of rules and procedures and conventions that define accepted accounting practice; includes broad guidelines as well as detailed procedures. |
| ~ pantheon | all the gods of a religion. |
| ~ free world | anti-communist countries collectively. |
| ~ third world | underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively. |
| ~ europe | the nations of the European continent collectively.; "the Marshall Plan helped Europe recover from World War II" |
| ~ asia | the nations of the Asian continent collectively. |
| ~ north america | the nations of the North American continent collectively. |
| ~ central america | the nations of Central America collectively. |
| ~ south america | the nations of the South American continent collectively.; "South America is an important market for goods from the United States" |
| ~ oort cloud | (astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto; perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun. |
| ~ galaxy | a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people). |
| ~ extragalactic nebula, galaxy | (astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust.; "`extragalactic nebula' is a former name for `galaxy'" |
| ~ fleet | a group of warships organized as a tactical unit. |
| ~ fleet | group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership. |
| ~ fleet | group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership. |
| ~ repertoire, repertory | a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule. |
| ~ repertoire, repertory | the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation.; "the repertory of the supposed feats of mesmerism"; "has a large repertory of dialects and characters" |
| ~ assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety, mixture | a collection containing a variety of sorts of things.; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions" |
| ~ batch, clutch | a collection of things or persons to be handled together. |
| ~ batch | all the loaves of bread baked at the same time. |
| ~ rogue's gallery | a collection of pictures of criminals. |
| ~ expo, exhibition, exposition | a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display. |
| ~ convoy | a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships. |
| ~ traffic | the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time. |
| ~ air power, aviation | the aggregation of a country's military aircraft. |
| ~ botany, flora, vegetation | all the plant life in a particular region or period.; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
| ~ menagerie | a collection of live animals for study or display. |
| ~ data, information | a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.; "statistical data" |
| ~ ana | a collection of anecdotes about a person or place. |
| ~ mail, post | any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered.; "your mail is on the table"; "is there any post for me?"; "she was opening her post" |
| ~ treasure | a collection of precious things.; "the trunk held all her meager treasures" |
| ~ treasure trove | any collection of valuables that is discovered.; "her book was a treasure trove of new ideas"; "mother's attic was a treasure trove when we were looking for antiques" |
| ~ trinketry | trinkets and other ornaments of dress collectively. |
| ~ troponomy, troponymy | the place names of a region or a language considered collectively. |
| ~ smithereens | a collection of small fragments considered as a whole.; "Berlin was bombed to smithereens"; "his hopes were dashed to smithereens"; "I wanted to smash him to smithereens"; "the toilet bowl ws blown to smithereens" |
| ~ magi, wise men | (New Testament) the sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born; the Gospel According to Matthew says they were guided by a star and brought gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh; because there were three gifts it is usually assumed that there were three of them. |
| n. (communication) | 2. collection, compendium | a publication containing a variety of works. |
| ~ publication | a copy of a printed work offered for distribution. |
| ~ anthology | a collection of selected literary passages. |
| ~ archives | collection of records especially about an institution. |
| ~ compilation, digest | something that is compiled (as into a single book or file). |
| n. (communication) | 3. appeal, collection, ingathering, solicitation | request for a sum of money.; "an appeal to raise money for starving children" |
| ~ petition, request, postulation | a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority. |
| ~ whip-round | (British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose. |
| n. (act) | 4. aggregation, assembling, collecting, collection | the act of gathering something together. |
| ~ grouping | the activity of putting things together in groups. |
| ~ agglomeration | the act of collecting in a mass; the act of agglomerating. |
| ~ collation | assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence. |
| ~ compiling, compilation | the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list).; "the job of compiling the inventory took several hours" |
| ~ gather, gathering | the act of gathering something. |
| ~ bottle collection | the activity of collecting bottles.; "bottle collection is a hobby of hers" |
| ~ conchology, shell collecting | the collection and study of mollusc shells. |
| ~ coin collecting, numismatics, numismatology, coin collection | the collection and study of money (and coins in particular). |
| ~ pickup | the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places.; "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays" |
| ~ philately, stamp collecting, stamp collection | the collection and study of postage stamps. |
| ~ tax collection | the collection of taxes. |
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