Package vs Collection - What's the difference?
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Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.
(label) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.
The act of packing something.
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Something resembling a package.
A package holiday.
A football formation.
(euphemistic, vulgar) The male genitalia.
A charge made for packing goods.
To pack or bundle something.
To travel on a package holiday.
A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
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Multiple related objects associated as a group.
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(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.
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(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
As nouns the difference between package and collection
is that package is something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope while collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.As a verb package
is to pack or bundle something.package
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(wikipedia package)Noun
- Did you test the software package to ensure completeness?
- the "dime" defensive package
- For third and short, they're going to bring in their jumbo package.
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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.
