different between fund vs collection

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fond, from Latin fundus. Doublet of fond and fundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

fund (plural funds)

1. A sum or source of money.

2. An organization managing such money.
3. A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.

4. A large supply of something to be drawn upon.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

fund (third-person singular simple present funds, present participle funding, simple past and past participle funded)

1. (transitive) To pay for.

2. (transitive) To place (money) in a fund.
3. (transitive) To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.

Translations

Albanian

Alternative forms

• fun, funn (Gheg) [f?n]

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fund]

Noun

fund m (indefinite plural funde, definite singular fundi, definite plural fundet)

1. end
2. bottom (lowest part)

Declension

Derived terms

• fundërri (Tosk)
• fundi (Tosk), funi (Gheg)
• fundit (Tosk), funit (Gheg)
• fundor (Tosk), funor (Gheg)

References

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• fundu, afundu

Noun

fund n

1. Alternative form of fundu

Danish

Etymology

Verbal noun to finde (“to find”). Compare Old Norse fundr and German Fund.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?n?]

Noun

fund n (singular definite fundet, plural indefinite fund)

1. find
2. bargain
3. discovery

Inflection

Icelandic

Noun

fund

1. indefinite accusative singular of fundur

Middle English

Noun

fund (plural fundes)

1. Alternative form of feend

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin fundus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?ud?m?n. Doublet of fond, which was borrowed from French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fund]

Noun

fund n (plural funduri)

1. bottom
2. backside; buttocks

Declension

Derived terms

• funda?

Related terms

See also

• ?ezut
• popou
• buc?

References

• fund in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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).