Commentary: COLLECTION[+entity][+group][+assemblage][-ownership]
NOTE: does not imply an essential trait of ownership by a collector (see Sense 4)
Examples:
We drove down a street with a rambling collection of old houses.
The meeting drew a motley collection of townspeople we'd never seen before.
I swept away huge collections of cobwebs from the corner of the basement.
There was a large collection of bottles behind the counter.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: COLLECTION[+event][+activity][+gathering] The act of gathering things together
NOTE: nominalization of the verb 'collect'
Examples:
Garbage collection usually occurs on Tuesday mornings.
The collection agency took John's car when he forgot to pay his bills for a year.
These buckets are used for the collection of maple sap.
The collection of taxes in that country is somewhat haphazard.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: COLLECTION[+quantity][+sum][+money]
Examples:
We're taking up a collection to support the Libertarian party.
Each Sunday baskets were passed through the church pews for the weekly collection.
The street musician's collection from his hat last night was only twenty dollars.
When she died, they took up a collection for her burial.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: COLLECTION[+entity][+group][+set][+ownership][+collector]
NOTE: implies ownership and intentional assembly, not happenstance (see Sense 1)
Examples:
This museum has an impressive collection of Dutch masters.
This poem is from a collection entitled, "Poems from the Heart".
The child showed us her collection of autumn leaves.
John showed me his bottle-cap collection.
Critics loved the new spring collections from Milan.
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WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)
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