Collaborate vs Collection - What's the difference?
collaborate | collection |
To work together with others to achieve a common goal.
To voluntarily cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country.
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.
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, 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 a verb collaborate
is to work together with others to achieve a common goal.As a noun collection is
a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.collaborate
English
Verb
(collaborat)- Let's collaborate on this dictionary, and get it finished faster.
- If you collaborate with the occupying forces, you will be shot.
See also
* collaborator * collaborationReferences
* * * * ----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.