collection

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together. countable,uncountable
    — The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
  2. A set of pitch classes used by a composer. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  3. The activity of collecting. countable,uncountable
    — Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
  4. 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
  5. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  6. Debt collection. countable,uncountable
  7. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
  8. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. UK,countable,uncountable
  9. A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term. countable,plural-normally,uncountable
  10. The quality of being collected; calm composure. countable,uncountable

词形变化

collections plural

词汇关系

衍生词
biocollection capped collection collection agency collectional collection box collectioner collectionitis collection mailbox collection plate collection-plate collection procedure collection society cryocollection data collection e-collection fog collection garbage collection grievance collection injustice collection megacollection microcollection minicollection money collection multicollection noncollection overcollection precollection recollection selective collection stamp collection subcollection take up a collection tax collection type collection undercollection wound collection

词源

From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem, from collēctus, from colligō (“collect together”), composed of con- + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”). Equivalen to collect + -ion.
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