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Collection vs Concourse - What's the difference?

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Collection is a related term of concourse.


In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between collection and concourse

is that collection is (obsolete) the act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred while concourse is (obsolete) concurrence; cooperation.

As nouns the difference between collection and concourse

is that collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together while concourse is a large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal.

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

    concourse

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia concourse) (en noun)
  • A large open space in or in front of a building where people can gather, particularly one joining various paths, as in a rail station or airport terminal.
  • A large group of people; a crowd.
  • * , The Publisher to the Reader
    • About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.
  • * Prescott
    • Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in silk brocade.
  • The running or flowing together of things; the meeting of things; confluence.
  • * 1662 - Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World , First Day:
    • ... there was only wanting the concourse of rains ...
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter.
  • * Sir Isaac Newton
    • The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses.
  • An open space, especially in a park, where several roads or paths meet.
  • (obsolete) concurrence; cooperation
  • * Barrow
    • The divine providence is wont to afford its concourse to such proceeding.

    Usage notes

    In sense "open space", particularly used of indoor spaces, by contrast with (m), (m), (m), etc. However, may be used for outdoor spaces as well, primarily high-traffic areas in front of a building.

    Coordinate terms

    * (open space) (l), (l)