📖 C — The English dictionary · page 46

collaboration — Everyday, meaning 1: Working together with others to make or do something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A piece of work made by people working together.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history, negative) Helping an enemy who has taken over your country, especially in a war.↗ Example: Our class mural was a collaboration between all the pupils.↗ · The project was made in collaboration with the local museum.↗ · Good collaboration means listening to each other.↗ · The two singers released a collaboration.↗ · Scientists around the world worked in collaboration.↗ · Collaboration helps us solve bigger problems.↗ · In the war, collaboration with the enemy was punished.↗ · The best of Perrault's critics, Paul de St Victor and Andrew Lang among others, see in the book a marvellous collaboration of crabbed age and youth.↗

collaborative — Everyday, meaning 1: Done by people working together, not alone: «a collaborative project».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Good at working with others or liking to share work: «a collaborative team».↗ Example: The mural was a collaborative project by the whole school.↗ · Our class story was collaborative: everybody wrote one page.↗ · Scientists say that most big discoveries are collaborative.↗ · The coach praised the team for its collaborative spirit.↗ · We use a collaborative document so we can all type at the same time.↗ · Building the robot was a collaborative effort.↗

collapse — Everyday, meaning 1: To fall down or fall in suddenly, like a building, bridge or tent.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: For a person, to fall down because of illness or tiredness.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To fold up into a smaller shape.↗ e.g. "a collapsing chair".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To fail suddenly.↗ e.g. "The plan collapsed."↗ Example: The sandcastle collapsed when the wave hit it.↗ · The old barn collapsed in the storm.↗ · The runner collapsed at the finish line.↗ · Call 911, 999, 000 or 111 if someone collapses.↗ · Our tent collapsed in the wind.↗ · We collapsed with laughter at the joke.↗ · This umbrella collapses to fit in my bag.↗ · The result was just what might have been expected: the whole Body soon began to fail, and the Members and all shared in the general collapse.↗

collapsible — Everyday, meaning 1: Made so that it can be folded up or pushed down into a smaller shape when not being used (a collapsible chair, a collapsible water bottle).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Likely or able to fall down or fold in (a collapsible steering column that folds in a crash for safety).↗ Example: We took collapsible chairs to the beach.↗ · My collapsible water bottle fits in my pocket.↗ · The collapsible table folds flat against the wall.↗ · Grandma has a collapsible walking stick.↗ · In DT we designed a collapsible bridge.↗ · The car's steering wheel is collapsible to protect the driver.↗

collar — Everyday, meaning 1: A collar is the part of a shirt, coat or dress that goes round the neck.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A collar is a band of leather or other material put round an animal's neck, like a dog's collar.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A collar is any ring or band round something, like a metal collar round a pipe.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To collar someone means to catch and hold them, or stop them to talk to them.↗ Example: Fold your collar down neatly.↗ · The dog's collar has his name and our phone number on it.↗ · It was so cold that I turned up my coat collar.↗ · The kitten wears a collar with a little bell.↗ · Dad got hot under the collar when we were late.↗ · The teacher collared me after class to talk about my project.↗ · My school shirt has a white collar.↗ · The pigeon has a shiny green collar of feathers.↗ · He ran and held the man by the collar.↗ · By the great force of my disease is my garment disfigured; it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.↗ (Writings JOB.30.18, JPS 1917)↗ · It is like the precious oil upon the head, coming down upon the beard; even Aaron's beard, that cometh down upon the collar of his garments; (Writings PSA.133.2, JPS 1917)↗

collarbone — Everyday, meaning 1: The collarbone is one of two long thin bones at the front of your body, running from the top of your chest to each shoulder.↗ Example: You can feel your collarbone just below your neck.↗ · He broke his collarbone when he fell off his bike.↗ · The doctor put her arm in a sling for her collarbone.↗ · Each person has two collarbones.↗ · The scientific name for the collarbone is the clavicle.↗ · The necklace rested on her collarbone.↗

collate — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To compare texts carefully to find the differences between them.↗ Example: The edition which I now offer is fundamentally that of the ancient Hebrew codices translated into English, and collated with the Latin versions of Pistorius, Postellus, and Rittangelius.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

collateral — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal) Collateral is something valuable, like a house, that you promise to give to a bank if you cannot pay back a loan.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Collateral damage means harm done by accident to people or things that were not the target, especially in war; also used for side harm in everyday talk.↗ Example: The farmer used his land as collateral for the loan.↗ · Without collateral, the bank would not lend him money.↗ · The bomb caused collateral damage to nearby houses.↗ · The vase was collateral damage when the ball hit the shelf.↗ · A bank may keep the collateral if the loan is not paid.↗ · The bike was offered as collateral for the money.↗

collation — Everyday, meaning 1: A collation is a light meal, a snack set out for guests.↗ Example: After the long walk we had a light collation of bread and cheese.↗ · The guests were served a collation in the garden.↗ · He ate nothing at the collation because he was too excited.↗

colleague — Everyday, meaning 1: A colleague is a person you work with, especially in a job or profession.↗ Example: Mum went out for lunch with her colleagues.↗ · My teacher asked a colleague to help.↗ · The doctor discussed the case with a colleague.↗ · Dad's colleague gave him a lift home.↗ · She is respected by all her colleagues.↗ · The new nurse met her colleagues on the ward.↗ · “I am sorry,” said the Owl, “to have to contradict the Crow, my famous friend and colleague.↗

collect — Everyday, meaning 1: To collect is to gather things together into one place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To collect things as a hobby is to keep many things of one kind, like stamps, shells or cards.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To collect someone is to go and pick them up.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To collect money is to ask people for it and get it, like for a charity.↗ Example: He collects 5 shells a day.↗ · She collects stamps.↗ · The class collected 300 cans.↗ · How many does he collect in a week?↗ · Dad collects me from school at 3 o'clock.↗ · We collect rainwater in a barrel.↗ · Please collect the pencils at the end of the lesson.↗ · They collect money for the animal shelter.↗ · Newell, who is collecting the English folk-tales that still remain current in New England.↗ · The Thirtieth Path is the Collecting Intelligence, and is so-called because Astrologers deduce from it the judgment of the Stars, and of the celestial signs, and the perfections of their science, according to the rules of their resolutions.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Thirtieth Path is the Collecting Intelligence, and is so called because Astrologers deduce from it the judgment of the Stars, and of the celestial signs, and the perfections of their science, according to the rules of their revolutions.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗

collected — Everyday, meaning 1: Collected is the past of collect: gathered together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Collected stamps or cards are ones someone has kept as a hobby.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Collected can also mean calm and in control.↗ Example: They collected 45 cans on Monday and 30 on Tuesday.↗ · She collected 12 leaves.↗ · How many stamps were collected in all?↗ · He collected twice as many as Sam.↗ · The teacher collected our tests.↗ · We collected data on the weather for a week.↗ · Dad collected us after the party.↗ · She stayed cool and collected in the storm.↗ · “Have you collected my tribute from Denmark?”↗ · The Talmuds were first collected into a concrete whole, and printed in Venice, 1520 a.d.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The Talmuds were first collected into a concrete whole, and printed in Venice, 1520 A.D.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Six extant Hebrew editions of the "Sepher Yetzirah' were collected and printed at Lemberg in 1680.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

collection — Everyday, meaning 1: A collection is a group of things a person gathers and keeps, like stamps or shells.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A collection is the act of collecting: «rubbish collection», «a collection for charity».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A collection is a group of stories, songs or art kept together, as in a museum.↗ Example: Ed has 120 stamps in his collection.↗ · He added 15 more shells to his collection.↗ · She gave 20 cards from her collection to her friend.↗ · His collection has 3 times as many as hers.↗ · The museum has a big collection of dinosaur bones.↗ · We had a collection for the animal shelter.↗ · Rubbish collection is on Mondays.↗ · This book is a collection of fairy tales.↗ · Rivière's collection of Kabyle tales, and so on.↗ · The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are those that are composed in collections; they are given from one shepherd.↗ (Writings ECC.12.11, JPS 1917)↗

collective — Everyday, meaning 1: (adjective) Done or shared by all members of a group together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) A group of people who work together and share what they make or own.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (grammar) A collective noun is a word for a group, like a flock of sheep, a team or a herd.↗ Example: "Flock" is a collective noun for sheep.↗ · It was a collective effort to clean the beach.↗ · The class made a collective decision to raise money for the zoo.↗ · A pride of lions is a collective noun.↗ · The artists formed a collective and shared a studio.↗ · We felt a collective sigh of relief when the test ended.↗ · A murder of crows is a funny collective noun.↗

collectively — Everyday, meaning 1: Collectively means all together, as a group.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Collectively means counting everyone or everything together.↗ Example: Collectively, the class raised £200 for charity.↗ · The three friends collectively own 24 books.↗ · We collectively decided to have pizza.↗ · (formal) Collectively, the members hold the majority.↗ · The students worked collectively on the mural.↗ · Collectively, the team ran 50 kilometres.↗ · There were three Giants, Briareus, Cottus, and Gyges, who each possessed a hundred hands and fifty heads, and were known collectively by the name of the Hecatoncheires, which signified hundred-handed.↗

collectivisation — Everyday, meaning 1: (history) The forcing of farmers to give up their own land and animals and join big farms run by the state, as in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and 1930s.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: More generally, putting things that belonged to separate people under shared or state ownership.↗ Example: Collectivisation took land away from millions of farmers.↗ · During collectivisation, families had to give their cows to the collective farm.↗ · Forced collectivisation helped cause the Holodomor famine in Ukraine.↗ · Our history book has a chapter on collectivisation in the Soviet Union.↗ · Many farmers who refused collectivisation were sent far away.↗ · Collectivisation was meant to grow more food, but harvests fell.↗

collector — Everyday, meaning 1: A collector is a person who collects things of one kind as a hobby, such as stamps, coins, cards or shells.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A collector is a person whose job is to collect money or things, such as a tax collector, a ticket collector or a rubbish collector.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In science and technology, a collector is a part that gathers something, such as a solar collector that gathers heat from the sun.↗ Example: My uncle is a stamp collector with over two thousand stamps.↗ · The ticket collector checked our tickets on the train.↗ · A collector paid a lot of money for the old toy car.↗ · The rubbish collectors come every Tuesday morning.↗ · This rare card is a real collector's item.↗ · A solar collector on the roof warms the water.↗ · The coin collector has 48 coins and buys 12 more.↗ · The lottery collector pressed me so hard that I thought I should crack.↗

college — Everyday, meaning 1: A place of education after school, where people study for qualifications or a trade.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (US) University; going to college means studying for a degree.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ) A school for students after age 16, or the name of some secondary schools.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: One of the parts that make up some universities, such as Oxford or Cambridge.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: An organised group of professional people (the College of Surgeons).↗ Example: My sister is at college studying art.↗ · He wants to go to college to become a teacher.↗ · The college has 3000 students.↗ · She applied to three colleges.↗ · In the UK, many teenagers go to college after their exams at sixteen.↗ · The college library is open late.↗ · The merchant was a learned man, for his father had sent him to college, and he had passed his examination.↗ · Published by the Dropsie College Philadelphia Pa.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

collide — Everyday, meaning 1: To collide is to crash into something or someone while moving: «Two cars collided.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: If ideas, plans or people's opinions collide, they strongly disagree or clash.↗ Example: Two players collided and fell over.↗ · The car collided with a lamppost.↗ · Look where you're going, or you'll collide with someone.↗ · Billions of years ago, a big rock collided with the Earth.↗ · The balls collided and rolled apart.↗ · Her plans collided with her brother's.↗ · Galaxies sometimes collide in space.↗ · Ride slowly on the path so you don't collide with walkers.↗ · The romp had ended with the appearance of Nana, and most unluckily Mr. Darling collided against her, covering his trousers with hairs.↗