Compilation vs. Collection — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Compilation and Collection
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Compilation
The action or process of producing something, especially a list or book, by assembling information collected from other sources
Great care has been taken in the compilation of this guidebook
Collection
The action or process of collecting someone or something
She left the envelope in the office for collection
Refuse collection
The collection of data
Compilation
A thing, especially a book, record, or broadcast programme, that is put together by assembling previously separate items
A compilation album
There are thirty-three stories in this compilation
Collection
A group of things or people
A rambling collection of houses
Compilation
The act of compiling.
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Collection
College examinations held at the beginning or end of a term, especially at Oxford University.
Compilation
Something, such as a report, anthology, or set of data, that is compiled.
Collection
The act or process of collecting.
Compilation
(uncountable) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
Collection
A group of objects or works to be seen, studied, or kept together.
Compilation
(countable) That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
Susie made Jasmine a compilation CD of some of best songs they'd heard at the festival.
Collection
A line of products produced for one season, as those developed by a designer
Promoted the summer collection in the store window.
Compilation
Translation of source code into object code by a compiler.
Collection
An accumulation; a deposit
A collection of dust on the piano.
Compilation
The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
Collection
A collecting of money, as in church.
Compilation
That which is compiled; especially, a book or document composed of materials gathering from other books or documents.
His [Goldsmith's] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers.
Collection
The sum so collected.
Compilation
Something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
Collection
A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
The attic contains a remarkable collection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
The asteroid belt consists of a collection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.
Compilation
The act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list);
The job of compiling the inventory took several hours
Collection
Multiple related objects associated as a group.
He has a superb coin collection.
Collection
The activity of collecting.
Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
Collection
A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
Collection
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
Collection
(law) Debt collection.
Collection
(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
Collection
(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Collection
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
Collection
The quality of being collected; calm composure.
Collection
The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
Collection
That which is collected
Collection
The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.
Collection
The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Collection
Several things grouped together or considered as a whole
Collection
A publication containing a variety of works
Collection
Request for a sum of money;
An appeal to raise money for starving children
Collection
The act of gathering something together
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