different between collection vs collective

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.

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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 French collectif, from Latin coll?ct?vus, from coll?ctus, past participle of collig? (“I collect”), from com- (“together”) + leg? (“I gather”). Compare French collectif. Doublet of colectivo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??l?kt?v/
• Hyphenation, US: col?lec?tive; UK: col?lect?ive
• Rhymes: -?kt?v

Adjective

collective (not comparable)

1. formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated

2. tending to collect; forming a collection
3. having plurality of origin or authority
4. (grammar) expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form
5. (obsolete) deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

     critical and collective reason

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Noun

collective (plural collectives)

1. a farm owned by a collection of people
2. (especially in communist countries) one of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community
3. (grammar) a collective noun or name
4. (by extension) a group dedicated to a particular cause or interest
   • 2005, Zoya Kocur, Simon Leung, Theory in contemporary art since 1985 (page 76)

     There are, however, a number of contemporary artists and art collectives that have defined their practice precisely around the facilitation of dialogue among diverse communities.

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See also

• collective fruit (Botany), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit.

References

• collective in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• collective in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• collective at OneLook Dictionary Search

Further reading

• "collective" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 69.

French

Adjective

collective

1. feminine singular of collectif

Latin

Adjective

coll?ct?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of coll?ct?vus