Collection vs. Store — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Collection and Store
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Definitions
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
Store
A place where merchandise is offered for sale; a shop.
Collection
A group of things or people
A rambling collection of houses
Store
A stock or supply reserved for future use
A squirrel's store of acorns.
Collection
College examinations held at the beginning or end of a term, especially at Oxford University.
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Store
Stores Supplies, especially of food, clothing, or arms.
Collection
The act or process of collecting.
Store
A place where commodities are kept; a warehouse or storehouse.
Collection
A group of objects or works to be seen, studied, or kept together.
Store
A great quantity or number; an abundance.
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Collection
A line of products produced for one season, as those developed by a designer
Promoted the summer collection in the store window.
Store
To reserve or put away for future use.
Collection
An accumulation; a deposit
A collection of dust on the piano.
Store
To fill, supply, or stock.
Collection
A collecting of money, as in church.
Store
To deposit or receive in a storehouse or warehouse for safekeeping.
Collection
The sum so collected.
Store
(Computers) To copy (data) into memory or onto a storage device, such as a hard disk.
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.
Store
A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
This building used to be a store for old tires.
Collection
Multiple related objects associated as a group.
He has a superb coin collection.
Store
A supply held in storage.
Collection
The activity of collecting.
Collection of trash will occur every Thursday.
Store
(mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
I need to get some milk from the grocery store.
Collection
A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
Store
Memory.
The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.
Collection
A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
Store
A great quantity or number; abundance.
Collection
(law) Debt collection.
Store
A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.
Collection
(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
Store
(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.
I'll store these books in the attic.
Collection
(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Store
Contain.
The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.
Collection
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
Store
Have the capacity and capability to contain.
They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.
Collection
The quality of being collected; calm composure.
Store
To write (something) into memory or registers.
This operation stores the result on the stack.
Collection
The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
Store
That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.
The ships are fraught with store of victuals.
With store of ladies, whose bright eyesRain influence, and give the prize.
Collection
That which is collected
Store
A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
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.
Store
Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
Collection
The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Store
Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.
His swine, his horse, his stoor, and his poultry.
In his needy shop a tortoise hung,An alligator stuffed, and other skinsOf ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelvesA beggarly account of empty boxes.
Sulphurous and nitrous foam, . . . Concocted and adjusted, they reducedTo blackest grain, and into store conveyed.
Collection
Several things grouped together or considered as a whole
Store
Accumulated; hoarded.
Collection
A publication containing a variety of works
Store
To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
Dora stored what little she could save.
Collection
Request for a sum of money;
An appeal to raise money for starving children
Store
To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
Her mind with thousand virtues stored.
Wise Plato said the world with men was stored.
Having stored a pond of four acres with carps, tench, and other fish.
Collection
The act of gathering something together
Store
To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.
Store
A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;
He bought it at a shop on Cape Cod
Store
A supply of something available for future use;
He brought back a large store of Cuban cigars
Store
An electronic memory device;
A memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached
Store
A depository for goods;
Storehouses were built close to the docks
Store
Keep or lay aside for future use;
Store grain for the winter
The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat
Store
Find a place for and put away for storage;
Where should we stow the vegetables?
I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some
