Collection vs Pair - 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)
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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.
* (John Milton)
(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
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Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plurale tantum)
A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
(cards) A poker hand that contains of two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
(cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match
(baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play
(baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams
(slang) A pair of breasts
(Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
(archaic) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set.
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(kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair'', ''sliding pair'', ''twisting pair .
To group into sets of two.
* Alexander Pope
To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
(politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
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(computing) to form wireless connection between to devices
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Collection is a related term of pair.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between collection and pair
is that collection is (obsolete) the act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred while pair is (obsolete) to impair.As nouns the difference between collection and pair
is that collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together while pair is two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.As a verb pair is
to group into sets of two or pair can be (obsolete) to impair.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 .
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- 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 collectionpair
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) paire, from (etyl) .Noun
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- There were two pairs on the final vote.
- plunging myself into poverty and shabbiness and love in one room up three pair of stairs
- Two crowns in my pocket, two pair of cards.
Synonyms
* two objects in a group: duo, dyad, couple, brace, twosome, duplet * (pair of breasts) See alsoDerived terms
* on a pair * grow a pair * in pairs * king pair * pair-horse * pair-oar(ed) * pair production * pair skating * royal pair * strap on a pairVerb
(en verb)- Glossy jet is paired with shining white.
- The wedding guests were paired boy/girl and groom's party/bride's party.
- My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.
- If your computer has a built-in, non-Microsoft transceiver, you can pair the device directly to the computer by using your computer’s Bluetooth software configuration program but without using the Microsoft Bluetooth transceiver.