different between collectable vs gabion

English

Alternative forms

• collectible (American English)

Etymology

collect +? -able

Adjective

collectable (not comparable)

1. Suitable for collecting.

Noun

collectable (plural collectables)

1. Anything that someone might want to collect.
   • 2006, Katie Salen Tekinbas, Eric Zimmerman, The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology (page 551)

     The mindset of making collectables runs against that of making games—if you succeed in the collectable department then there is a tendency to keep new players out and to drive old ones away because of escalating prices.

Synonyms

• collector's item

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian gabbione, augmentative of gabbia (“cage”), itself from Latin cavea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?.b??n/

Noun

gabion (plural gabions)

1. (historical, military) A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag).
   • 1563, Ambroise Paré, The Journey to Havre de Grace.

2. A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride.
3. (civil engineering) A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks.
4. A knickknack, objet d'art, curiosity, collectable.

   Reliquiae Trotcosienses: Or, the Gabions of the Late Jonathan Oldbuck Esq. of Monkbarns — title of unfinished novel by Walter Scott.

   • 1774, James Cant, introduction, The Muses Threnodie p. vi, quoted in 2004, Walter Scott Reliquiae Trotcosiensis, Edinburgh University Press, p.6,

Derived terms

• gabion wall

Related terms

• gabioned

See also

• sap — several mentions of gabions in the context of fortifications

Further reading

• gabion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gabino, bagnio