Collection vs Mob - What's the difference?
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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.
An unruly group of people.
*(James Madison), Jr. (1751-1836)
*:Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob .
A commonly used collective noun for animals such as horses or cattle.
The Mafia, or a similar group that engages in organized crime (preceded by the ).
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob , he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
*1986 , (Paul Chadwick), Concrete: Under the Desert Stars , Dark Horse Books
*:What if it is a mob killing? They can’t hurt me, but …
(lb) A non-player character that exists to be fought or killed to further the progression of the story or game.
*2002 , "Wolfie", Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch'' (on newsgroup ''alt.games.everquest )
*:You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players.
(lb) The lower classes of a community; the rabble.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters.
(lb) A cohesive group of people.
*2011 March 10, Allan Clarke,
*:There’s nothing like local knowledge and after thousands of years living here the Noongar mob understand this land better than anyone, so it makes sense for them to tap into the lucrative tourism industry.
To crowd around (someone), often with hostility.
To crowd into or around a place.
(video games) The act of a player aggroing enemies so they follow them and gather, forming a mob of foes. (rfex)
(obsolete) A promiscuous woman; a harlot or wench; a prostitute.
A mob cap.
To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
Collection is a synonym of mob.
As a noun collection
is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.As an initialism mob is
(nautical) m'an '''o'''ver ' b oard, used eg on the emergency button of a satellite navigator by pushing the button the operator stores the coordinates of a man overboard incident for easy access.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.
Derived terms
* collection agency * collection plate * minicollection * take up a collectionmob
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), short for mobile, from (etyl) . The video-gaming sense originates from English mobile, used by (Richard Bartle) for objects capable of movement in an early MUD.Noun
(en noun)W.A. through Noongar eyes
Derived terms
* flash mob * lynch mob * meal mob * mob rule * mob-handed * mobber * mobbish * mobbist * mobbism * moblike * mobmobile * mobocracy * mobster * vote mobSynonyms
* (mafia) mafia, MafiaVerb
(mobb)- The fans mobbed a well-dressed couple who resembled their idols.
- The shoppers mobbed the store on the first day of the sale.
Etymology 2
Alteration of (mab).Noun
(en noun)- (Goldsmith)