collection
part of speech
noun (collection, collections); verb collect
meaning for a pupil
1) A collection is a group of things a person gathers and keeps, like stamps or shells. tree →
2) A collection is the act of collecting: «rubbish collection», «a collection for charity». tree →
3) A collection is a group of stories, songs or art kept together, as in a museum. tree →
sense in the lessons
the amount of something one owns and keeps: it grows when one finds or buys more and shrinks when one gives away; museums have collections; phrases: «stamp collection», «add to a collection», «a collection of»
examples
- Ed has 120 stamps in his collection. tree →
- He added 15 more shells to his collection. tree →
- She gave 20 cards from her collection to her friend. tree →
- His collection has 3 times as many as hers. tree →
- The museum has a big collection of dinosaur bones. tree →
- We had a collection for the animal shelter. tree →
- Rubbish collection is on Mondays. tree →
- This book is a collection of fairy tales. tree →
- Rivière's collection of Kabyle tales, and so on. tree →
note
Countable: a collection, collections. A total kept by one owner: added to and taken from. Trap: «in his collection» is the whole amount, not a part.
In the corpora
- Some gossip can turn into something kind: a card, a collection, a thank you.
- As the collection plate went past in church in Boston, Matthew slipped out a coin to buy sweets after the service.
- The collection plate gathers money given to the church, often for people who need help and for running the church.
- In Houston, Aaliyah's little sisters wreck her slime collection.
- The Book of Proverbs is a collection of short wise sayings, many linked with King Solomon.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «collection» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.