Collective vs Cumulative - What's the difference?
collective | cumulative |
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
(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
Having plurality of origin or authority; as, in diplomacy, a note signed by the representatives of several governments is called a collective note.
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)
Incorporating all data up to the present
That is formed by accumulation of successive additions
* Francis Bacon
* Trench
That tends to accumulate
(finance) Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid
As adjectives the difference between collective and cumulative
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 cumulative is incorporating all data up to the present.As a noun collective
is a farm owned by a collection of people.collective
English
Adjective
(-)- critical and collective reason
- Local is his throne to fix a point, / A central point, collective of his sons.
Derived terms
* collectiveness * collectivelyNoun
(en noun)- 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 nounSee 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
* * * ----cumulative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative , not original.
- The argument is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative .