collection
[kə'lɛkʃən]
n. 集, 集, ()藏品, 募捐

[医] 集; 集品, 标

[] 款, 征, 托()款项

1. There are two collections a day from this letter box.
   箱每两次。
2. You are invited to view our autumn collection.
   您被邀请装展览。
3. She selected a diamond ring from the collection.
   她藏品挑选枚钻石戒指。

collection
[ noun ]

1. several things grouped together or considered as a whole

<noun.group>

2. a publication containing a variety of works

<noun.communication>

3. request for a sum of money

<noun.communication>
an appeal to raise money for starving children

4. the act of gathering something together

<noun.act>

Collection \Col*lec"tion\, n. [L. collectio: cf. F. collection.]
1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the
collection of specimens.

2. That which is collected; as:
(a) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.
``A collection of letters.'' --Macaulay.
(b) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes,
as by passing a contribution box for freewill
offerings. ``The collection for the saints.'' --1 Cor.
xvi. 1
(c) (Usually in pl.) That which is obtained in payment of
demands.
(d) An accumulation of any substance. ``Collections of
moisture.'' --Whewell. ``A purulent collection.''
--Dunglison.

3. The act of inferring or concluding from premises or
observed facts; also, that which is inferred. [Obs.]

We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have
been hitherto made out of those words by modern
divines. --Milton.

4. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. [Eng.]

Syn: Gathering; assembly; assemblage; group; crowd;
congregation; mass; heap; compilation.