Collection vs Shop - 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 establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
* Cowper
A place where things are crafted; a workshop or hobbyshop.
* Shakespeare
An automobile mechanic's workplace.
Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk'', ''closed shop'' and ''shop floor .
A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skill.
(business, computing) an organisation using specified programming languages or software, often exclusively.
An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.
(transitive, slang, chiefly, UK) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority.
(internet slang) Shorthand for photoshop ; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
As nouns the difference between collection and shop
is that collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together while shop is an establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.As a verb shop is
to visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something.As an interjection shop is
(used to attract the services of a shop assistant).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 collectionshop
English
Noun
(en noun)- From shop' to ' shop / Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks / The polished counter.
- A tailor called me in his shop .
- Our company is mostly a Java shop .
- This is where I do my weekly shop .
Synonyms
* (establishment that sells goods) boutique, retail outlet, store (US); see also * (place where things are crafted) atelier, studio, workshop * (sense, automobile mechanic's workplace) garage * (workplace) office, place of work, workplace * (wood shop) carpentry, wood shop, woodwork * (metal shop) metal shop, metalworkDerived terms
* beauty shop * bucket shop * charity shop * chip shop * close up shop * coffee shop * cop shop * corner shop * food shop * gift shop * like a bull in a china shop * one-stop shop * op shop * pawn shop * pet shop * Photoshop® * pound shop * repair shop * sex shop * shoe shop * shopaholic * shop assistant * shopfloor * shopfront * shopgirl * shophouse * shopkeep * shopkeeper * shopman * shop right * shop steward * shop talk * shopward * shopwards * shopworn * shut up shop * swap shop * sweet shop, sweet-shop, sweetshop * wood shop * workshopVerb
(shopp)- I went shopping early, before the Christmas rush.
- He’s shopping for clothes .
- He shopped his mates in to the police.
