collection

Noun
  1. Several things grouped together or considered as a whole (synset 107968050)
    is a type of: group, grouping - any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
    subtypes:
    • procession - the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation
    • pharmacopoeia - a collection or stock of drugs
    • string - a collection of objects threaded on a single strand
    • wardrobe - collection of clothing belonging to one person
    • wardrobe - collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company
    • population, universe - (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
    • armamentarium - the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine
    • art collection - a collection of art works
    • backlog - an accumulation of jobs not done or materials not processed that are yet to be dealt with (especially unfilled customer orders for products or services)
    • battery - a collection of related things intended for use together
    • block - a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
    • book, rule book - a collection of rules or prescribed standards on the basis of which decisions are made
    • book - a collection of playing cards satisfying the rules of a card game
    • bottle collection - a collection of bottles
    • bunch, caboodle, lot - any collection in its entirety
    • coin collection - a collection of coins
    • collage - any collection of diverse things
    • content, contents - (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
    • ensemble, tout ensemble - an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole
    • corpus - a collection of writings
    • crop - a collection of people or things appearing together
    • tenantry - tenants of an estate considered as a group
    • findings - a collection of tools and other articles used by an artisan to make jewelry or clothing or shoes
    • flagging - flagstones collectively
    • flinders - bits and splinters and fragments
    • pack - a complete collection of similar things
    • deal, hand - the cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time
    • long suit - in a hand, the suit having the most cards
    • herbarium - a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study
    • stamp collection - a collection of stamps
    • statuary - statues collectively
    • sum, sum total, summation - the final aggregate
    • agglomeration - a jumbled collection or mass
    • gimmickry - a collection of gimmicks
    • nuclear club - the nations possessing nuclear weapons
    • agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, mound, pile - a collection of objects laid on top of each other
    • mass - an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
    • combination - a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities
    • congregation - an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together
    • hit parade - a collection of the best or most popular people or items of a given kind
    • judaica - materials relating to Judaism
    • kludge - a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together)
    • library, program library, subroutine library - (computing) a collection of standard programs and subroutines that are stored and available for immediate use
    • library - a collection of literary documents or records kept for reference or borrowing
    • mythology - myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person
    • biology, biota - all the plant and animal life of a particular region
    • fauna, zoology - all the animal life in a particular region or period
    • petting zoo - a collection of docile animals for children to pet and feed
    • set - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
    • victoriana - collection of materials of or characteristic of the Victorian era
    • category, class, family - a collection of things sharing a common attribute
    • job lot - a miscellaneous collection of things sold together
    • bundle, package, packet, parcel - a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
    • defence, defense, defense lawyers, defense team - the defendant and his legal advisors collectively
    • prosecution - the lawyers acting for the state to put the case against the defendant
    • planting - a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area
    • signage - signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters)
    • gaap, generally accepted accounting principles - a collection of rules and procedures and conventions that define accepted accounting practice; includes broad guidelines as well as detailed procedures
    • pantheon - all the gods of a religion
    • free world - anti-communist countries collectively
    • third world - underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America collectively
    • europe - the nations of the European continent collectively
    • asia - the nations of the Asian continent collectively
    • north america - the nations of the North American continent collectively
    • central america - the nations of Central America collectively
    • south america - the nations of the South American continent collectively
    • oort cloud - (astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto; perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun
    • galaxy - a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people)
    • extragalactic nebula, galaxy - (astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust
    • fleet - a group of warships organized as a tactical unit
    • fleet - group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
    • fleet - group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
    • repertoire, repertory - a collection of works (plays, songs, operas, ballets) that an artist or company can perform and do perform for short intervals on a regular schedule
    • repertoire, repertory - the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation
    • assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety - a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
    • batch, clutch - a collection of things or persons to be handled together
    • batch - all the loaves of bread baked at the same time
    • rogue's gallery - a collection of pictures of criminals
    • exhibition, expo, exposition - a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
    • convoy - a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships
    • traffic - the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
    • air power, aviation - the aggregation of a country's military aircraft
    • botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period
    • jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority
    • menagerie - a collection of live animals for study or display
    • data, information - a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
    • ana - a collection of anecdotes about a person or place
    • mail, post - any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
    • treasure - a collection of precious things
    • treasure trove - any collection of valuables that is discovered
    • trinketry - trinkets and other ornaments of dress collectively
    • troponomy, troponymy - the place names of a region or a language considered collectively
    • smithereens - a collection of small fragments considered as a whole
    specific instances:
    • nag hammadi, nag hammadi library - a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism
    • magi, wise men - (New Testament) the sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born; the Gospel According to Matthew says they were guided by a star and brought gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh; because there were three gifts it is usually assumed that there were three of them
    same as: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage
  2. A publication containing a variety of works (synset 106603723)
    is a type of: publication - a copy of a printed work offered for distribution
    subtypes:
    • anthology - a collection of selected literary passages
    • archives - collection of records especially about an institution
    • compilation, digest - something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
    same as: compendium
  3. Request for a sum of money (synset 106525755)
    "an appeal to raise money for starving children"
    is a type of: petition, postulation, request - a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
    subtypes: whip-round - (British) solicitation of money usually for a benevolent purpose
    same as: appeal, ingathering, solicitation
  4. The act of gathering something together (synset 101016008)
    is a type of: grouping - the activity of putting things together in groups
    subtypes:
    same as: aggregation, assembling, collecting

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