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Playlist vs Collection - What's the difference?

playlist | collection |

As nouns the difference between playlist and collection

is that playlist is a list of recorded songs scheduled to be played on a radio station while collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.

As a verb playlist

is to include (a track) on a playlist.

playlist

English

Noun

(wikipedia playlist) (en noun)
  • A list of recorded songs scheduled to be played on a radio station.
  • (computing) A list of tracks to be played in a particular sequence, as from an audio CD.
  • A handwritten list of songs, prepared mainly for a band, to be performed by the lead singer(s) during a concert.

    • Derived terms

    * playlistism

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To include (a track) on a playlist.
    • She achieved success when her first single was playlisted on national radio.
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    collection

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
  • *
    • 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.
  • * (William Whewell)
    • Collections of moisture.
  • * Dunglison
    • A purulent collection .
  • Multiple related objects associated as a group.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= 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.}}
  • 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)
    • We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
  • (UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
  • A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.

    • Derived terms

    * collection agency * collection plate * minicollection * take up a collection