different between collection vs brood

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French collection, from Latin coll?cti?, coll?cti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??l?k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n
• Hyphenation: col?lec?tion

Noun

collection (countable and uncountable, plural collections)

1. A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
   • 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences

     collections of moisture

   • 1887, Robert Bartholow, A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine

     a purulent collection

2. Multiple related objects associated as a group.

3. The activity of collecting.

4. (topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets.
5. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
6. (law) Debt collection.
7. (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
8. (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
9. (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
10. The quality of being collected; calm composure.

Derived terms

Translations

French

Alternative forms

• c., coll. (abbreviations)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin coll?cti?, coll?cti?nem. Cf. also Old French quieuçon, which may be inherited from the same source, and the modern cueillaison, which was probably formed analogically.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.l?k.sj??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: collections
• Hyphenation: col?lec?tion

Noun

collection f (plural collections)

1. collection

Derived terms

• collec
• collectionner
• collectionneur
• collectionnite

Related terms

• collecte
• collecter
• cueillette
• cueillir

Further reading

• “collection” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English brood, brod, from Old English br?d (“brood; foetus; breeding, hatching”), from Proto-Germanic *br?duz (“heat, breeding”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?reh?- (“breath, mist, vapour, steam”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: bro?od, IPA^(key): /b?u?d/
• Homophones: brewed
• Rhymes: -u?d

Noun

brood (countable and uncountable, plural broods)

1. The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.

   • As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.

2. (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
3. (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
4. (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III scene ii^[1]:

     Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant, / And bring thee forth brave brood.

5. That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
   • 1598, George Chapman translation of Homer's Iliad, Book 2:

     […] flocks of the airy brood,

     Cranes, geese or long-neck'd swans, here, there, proud of their pinions fly […]

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 19:

     Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,

     And make the earth devour her own sweet brood […]

6. Parentage.
7. (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• flock, litter, young, get, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed, kin

Adjective

brood (not comparable)

1. Kept or reared for breeding, said of animals.

   a brood mare

Verb

brood (third-person singular simple present broods, present participle brooding, simple past and past participle brooded)

1. (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.

2. (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.

3. (intransitive) (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
   • 1833, Alfred Tennyson:

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 6, The Scarlet Letter:
4. (intransitive) To be bred.

Translations

Further reading

• Brood (honey bee) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dobro, boord, dobro, droob

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch brood, from Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-Germanic *braud?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??t/

Noun

brood (plural brode)

1. (countable) A loaf of bread.
2. (uncountable) Bread.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch brôot, from Old Dutch *br?d, from Proto-Germanic *braud?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bro?t/
• Hyphenation: brood
• Rhymes: -o?t

Noun

brood n (plural broden, diminutive broodje n)

1. (uncountable) Bread.
2. (countable) A loaf of bread.
3. (countable, by extension) A similar bakery product or other baked dish.
4. (uncountable, metonymically) Someone's livelihood, especially in expressions like dagelijks brood.

Derived terms

- bakery products

Descendants

• Afrikaans: brood

Anagrams

• boord

Middle English

Alternative forms

• brod, brode

Etymology

From Old English br?d.

Adjective

brood

1. broad

Descendants

• English: broad
• Scots: braid