Audience vs Collection - What's the difference?
audience | collection |
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke VII:
A group of people within hearing; specifically a group of people listening to a performance, speech etc.; the crowd seeing a stage performance.
* , chapter=3
, title= A formal meeting with a state or religious dignitary.
The readership of a book or other written publication.
A following.
A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
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* (William Whewell)
* Dunglison
Multiple related objects associated as a group.
* , chapter=5
, title= The activity of collecting.
(topology, analysis) A set of sets.
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
* (John Milton)
(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
As nouns the difference between audience and collection
is that audience is audience while collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.audience
English
Noun
(en noun)- When he had ended all his sayinges in the audience of the people, he entred into Capernaum.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
- We joined the audience just as the lights went down.
Usage notes
* In some dialects, audience is used as a plurale tantum. *: The audience are getting restless.Synonyms
* * (group of people seeing a performance) spectators, crowdDerived terms
() * intended audience * target audienceExternal links
* (wikipedia "audience") ----collection
English
Noun
(en noun)- Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections , rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
- Collections of moisture.
- A purulent collection .
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
- We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
