The attic contains a remarkablecollection of antiques, oddities, and random junk.
The asteroid belt consists of acollection of dust, rubble, and minor planets.
This year's SummerCollection will include a wide range of evening wear.
He has a superb coincollection.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster,The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.:Field Museum of Natural History,→ISBN, page vii:
Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite ofcollections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
Of all the queercollections 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.
2005, Neil Minturn,The Last Waltz of The Band, page112:
The "collectional information" one receives is ambiguous since thecollection { C, E, F, G, A } occurs in the key of C and in the key of F.
2009, Brian Moseley, “Form and Transpositional Combination in George Crumb'sLux Aeterna”, in Bruce Quaglia, Jack Boss, editors,Musical Currents from the Left Coast, page174:
In fact, students are often taught that specificcollections—diatonic, octatonic, and whole-tone, etc.—typify these composers' compositional language.
2012, Marguerite Boland, John Link,Elliott Carter Studies, page22:
Simply put, the realm of availablecollections in a largely diatonic environment is much smaller than it is in trulyatonal one.
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box fordonations.
1976 February 7, Rose Flower, quoting Jimmy McGrath, “Playland: The Friendliest Place In Town”, inGay Community News, volume 3, number32, page13:
The people here are very good to each other, too. When someone's house burned down, when someone was in the hospital, they took upcollections for the people.
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