different between packet vs collection

English

Alternative forms

• pacquet (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English pacquet; either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak and -et.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pak.?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæk.?t/

Noun

packet (plural packets)

1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel

2. (nautical) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia).
3. (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
4. (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
5. (South Africa) A plastic bag.
   • 2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?
6. (colloquial) A manbulge.
7. (informal) A large amount of money.

Derived terms

• fag packet

Translations

Verb

packet (third-person singular simple present packets, present participle packeting, simple past and past participle packeted)

1. (transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.
2. (transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
   • 1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble

     Her husband was packeted to France.

3. (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
4. (transitive, Internet) To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
   • 2007, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace

     Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender. These attacks—known as packeting—tend to be of limited duration […]

Translations

See also

• datagram
• packetlike
• packet radio
• packet switching, packet-switching

Further reading

• packet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• packet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ptacek, peck at

German

Alternative forms

• packt

Pronunciation

Verb

packet

1. imperative plural of packen

Portuguese

Noun

packet m (plural packets)

1. (networking) packet (small fragment of data)

Swedish

Noun

packet

1. definite singular of pack

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).