collection

Signification (Anglais)

1. A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
2. A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
3. The activity of collecting.
4. A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
5. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
6. Debt collection.
7. (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
8. The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
9. A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
10. The quality of being collected; calm composure.

Concepts

collection

recueil

collecte

recouvrement

ensemble

fonds

encaissement

bande

troupe

accumulation

de collection

anthologie

ramassage

levée

récolte

rassemblement

agrégation

gerbe

ramassis

quête

relevée

perception

réunion

regroupement

assemblage

appel

sollicitation

compendium

manuel

cueillette

philatélie

perception de taxes

perception des taxes

prélèvement de taxes

prélèvement des taxes

florilège

amas

foule

groupe

masse

multitude

tas

assortiment

mélange

Coupé comme

col‧lec‧tion

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kəˈlɛkʃən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle English colleccioun, collection, from Old French collection, from Latin collēctiō, collēctiōnem, from collēctus, from colligō (“collect together”), composed of con- + legō (“bring together, gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).

Phrases

The work is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art .

L'œuvre est actuellement dans la collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Another is in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge .

Un autre est dans la collection de Trinity College, Cambridge.

The type material is preserved in the collection of the Redpath Museum .

Le matériau de type est conservé dans la collection du Musée Redpath.