Collection vs Select - What's the difference?
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A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
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* 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.
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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.
Privileged, specially selected.
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* (1800-1859)
*:A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Of high quality; top-notch.
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To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
As nouns the difference between collection and select
is that collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together while Select is a button (of a joystick, joypad or similar device) that, when pressed, activates any of certain predefined functions that usually, but not always, involve selecting something out of a list of items.As an adjective select is
privileged, specially selected.As a verb select is
to choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.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 collectionselect
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(en verb)- He looked over the menu, and selected the roast beef.
- The program computes all the students' grades, then selects a random sample for human verification.
