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Collective vs Conjunct - What's the difference?

collective | conjunct |

As adjectives the difference between collective and conjunct

is that collective is formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation while conjunct is conjoined.

As nouns the difference between collective and conjunct

is that collective is a farm owned by a collection of people while conjunct is (logic) either term of a conjunction.

collective

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
  • (obsolete) Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • critical and collective reason
  • (grammar) Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly'', ''army'', ''jury , etc.
  • Tending to collect; forming a collection.
  • * Young
    • Local is his throne to fix a point, / A central point, collective of his sons.
  • Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.

    • Derived terms

    * collectiveness * collectively

    Related terms

    * collect * collectible * collection * collectivity * collector

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A farm owned by a collection of people.
  • (especially, in communist countries) One of more farms managed and owned, through the state, by the community.
  • (grammar) A collective noun or name.
  • (by extension) A group dedicated to a particular cause or interest.
  • * 2005 , Zoya Kocur, Simon Leung, Theory in contemporary art since 1985 (page 76)
    • There are, however, a number of contemporary artists and art collectives that have defined their practice precisely around the facilitation of dialogue among diverse communities.

    Derived terms

    * collectivize * collective noun

    See also

    * collective fruit (Botany), that which is formed from a mass of flowers, as the mulberry, pineapple, and the like; -- called also multiple fruit.

    References

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    conjunct

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (logic) Either term of a conjunction
  • * {{quote-journal, 2007, date=July 14, Timothy Chan, Belief, assertion and Moore’s Paradox, Philosophical Studies, url=, doi=10.1007/s11098-007-9130-z, volume=139, issue=3, pages=
    • , passage=Asserting a conjunction would be irrational if the epistemic grounds for one conjunct' defeat those for the other, for example when the two ' conjuncts are logically inconsistent. }}
  • (linguistics) An adjunct that supplements a sentence with information, not considered to be an essential part of the propositional content, that connects the sentence with previous parts of the discourse, as "therefore" in "It was raining. Therefore, we didn't go swimming."

    • Holonyms

    * (in logic) conjunction

    Adjective

    (-)
  • conjoined
    • Set A is conjunct with set B.
  • acting together; collaborative

    • Antonyms

    * (conjoined) disjunct