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Collective vs Proverbiology - What's the difference?

collective | proverbiology |

As nouns the difference between collective and proverbiology

is that collective is a farm owned by a collection of people while proverbiology is (rare) the study of proverbs; the collective lore of proverbs.

As an adjective collective

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

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

    * * * ----

    proverbiology

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) The study of proverbs; the collective lore of proverbs.
  • * 1880 , J. Long, "Proverbs: English and Keltic, with Their Eastern Relations," The Folk-Lore Record , vol. 3, no. 1, p. 59:
    • As the English language is best studied by the light thrown on it by comparative philology, and as a knowledge of human anatomy is greatly aided by the discoveries in the comparative anatomy of animals, so must English Proverbiology' by assisted by the light reflected from comparative ' Proverbiology .
  • * 1989 , R. V. Teschner, "Reviews of A Dictionary of Mexican American Proverbs'' by Mark Glazer," ''Hispania , vol. 72, no. 1, p. 150:
    • Is the DMAP [Dictionary of Mexican American Proverbs ] intended as a comparative Chicano proverbiology ?

    Derived terms

    * proverbiologist

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.