Collection and File

Collection

Collection noun - An organized group of objects acquired and maintained for study, exhibition, or personal pleasure.

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File and collection are semantically related. In some cases you can use "File" instead a noun "Collection".

File noun - A series of persons or things arranged one behind another.

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Collection and file are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Collection" instead a noun "File".

Nearby Words: filed, filing, filer

old	old collection	old file
rare	rare collection	rare file
special	special collection	special file
certain	certain collection	certain file
Other adjectives: original, single, entire, large, extensive, huge, bad, personal, secret, new, random, different, available, recent, previous.

This is the entire concept behind "compressed folder" formats such as .zip, .rar, and .7z—taking a file or collection of files and jamming it into a single file that takes up a fraction of the space of the uncompressed files.

Source: Bigger on the Inside
If you save in there and overwrite your main save file, you're trapped there, meaning you can't complete your collection books or play minigames any more.

Source: Video Game / The Dog Island
To this day it's difficult to find a collection of the comic online (mostly on torent or other file hosts), and she is apparently actively filing DMCA takedown requests.

Source: Creator Breakdown / Web Comics

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