different between collection vs clump

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 clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glemb?- (“lump, clamp”).Alternatively, possibly from Middle Dutch clompe or Middle Low German klumpe (compare German Klumpen). Cognates include Danish klump (probably from Low German as well). Compare Norwegian Bokmål klump.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

clump (plural clumps)

1. A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
2. A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
   • 1954, Lucian Hobart Ryland (translator), Adelaide of Brunswick (originally by Marquis de Sade)

     clump of trees

3. A dull thud.
4. The compressed clay of coal strata.

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5. A small group of trees or plants.
6. (historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.

Derived terms

• clumpy

Translations

to be checked

Verb

clump (third-person singular simple present clumps, present participle clumping, simple past and past participle clumped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To gather in dense groups.
3. (intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
4. (transitive, Britain, regional) To strike; to beat.
   • 1912, Mrs. Coulson Kernahan, The Go-Between (page 79)

     There is his poor little cap hanging up on the door; and there on the table is the knife he chipped a piece out of through not minding the mark on the knife machine, and I clumped his head for him, poor lamb!

Derived terms

• clump up

Translations

References

Further reading

• Clump in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)