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Collection vs Album - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between collection and album

is that collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together while album is a book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.

collection

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
  • *
  • 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.
  • * (William Whewell)
  • Collections of moisture.
  • * Dunglison
  • A purulent collection .
  • Multiple related objects associated as a group.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= 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.}}
  • 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)
  • We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
  • (UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
  • A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
  • Derived terms

    * collection agency * collection plate * minicollection * take up a collection

    album

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia album) (en-noun)
  • A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or autographs.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album , now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
  • A jacket for a phonograph record; an album cover.
  • A phonograph record.
  • * 1965 , (American Philological Association), (Press of (Case Western Reserve University)), volume 96, page 364
  • This mixture was to be effected either by drawing the juries partly from the senate (of about 300 members), partly from an album'' of 300 ''equites'' (Plut. ''CG'' 5.2, ''Comp.'' 2.1), or by adlecting 600 ''equites'' into the senate and drawing the juries from this new senatorial order (Liv. ''Per. 60).
  • A group of audio recordings, on any medium, intended for distribution as a group.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=August 21, author=Jason Heller, work=The Onion AV Club
  • , title= The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review) , passage=When the album succeeds, such as on the swaggering, Queen-esque “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,” it does so on The Darkness’ own terms—that is, as a random ’80s-cliché generator. But with so many tired, lazy callbacks to its own threadbare catalog (including “Love Is Not The Answer,” a watery echo of the epic “I Believe In A Thing Called Love” from 2003’s Permission To Land''), ''Hot Cakes marks the point where The Darkness has stopped cannibalizing the golden age of stadium rock and simply started cannibalizing itself. And, despite Hawkins’ inveterate crotch-grabbing, there was never that much meat there to begin with. }}

    Synonyms

    * disk * disc * LP * long-playing