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Collection vs Jumble - What's the difference?

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Collection is a synonym of jumble.


As nouns the difference between collection and jumble

is that collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together while jumble is a mixture of unrelated things.

As a verb jumble is

to mix or confuse.

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

    jumble

    English

    Verb

    (jumbl)
  • to mix or confuse
  • * Burton
  • Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together?
  • * Tennyson
  • Every clime and age jumbled together.
  • to meet or unite in a confused way
  • Noun

    (-)
  • A mixture of unrelated things.
  • (British) Items for a rummage sale.
  • (archaic) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * jumble sale