Collection vs Assemble - What's the difference?
collection | assemble |
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.
To put together.
(ambitransitive) To gather as a group.
* Milton
* Bible, 1 Kings viii. 2
(computing) to translate from assembly language to machine code
As a noun collection
is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.As a verb assemble is
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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.
Derived terms
* collection agency * collection plate * minicollection * take up a collectionassemble
English
Verb
(assembl)- He assembled the model ship.
- The parents assembled in the school hall.
- Thither he assembled all his train.
- All the men of Israel assembled themselves.