Monograph vs Collection - What's the difference?
monograph | collection |
A scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person.
To write a monograph on (a subject).
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A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
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* (William Whewell)
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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.
As nouns the difference between monograph and collection
is that monograph is a scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or a group of related subjects, usually written by one person while collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.As a verb monograph
is to write a monograph on (a subject).monograph
English
(wikipedia monograph)Noun
(en noun)- I had never given much thought to the role of darkness in ordinary human affairs until I read a monograph prepared by John Staudenmaier, a historian of technology and a Jesuit priest, for a recent conference at MIT.'' Cullen Murphy, "Hello Darkness", ''The Atlantic Monthly , March 1996, Volume 277, No. 3,
pp. 22-24.
Verb
(en verb)citation
Anagrams
* *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 .
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- We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
