Collection
Collection noun - An organized group of objects acquired and maintained for study, exhibition, or personal pleasure.
Order and collection are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Order" instead a noun "Collection".
Order
Order noun - The way objects in space or events in time are arranged or follow one another.
Collection and order are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Collection" instead a noun "Order".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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An episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit had a criminal who kidnapped children to play with his doll collection.
Source: The Doll Episode - According to Vasquez, the origin of the collection was him writing the cartoons back in school in order to get people to stop bugging him to draw for them.
Source: Old Shame / Comic Books - In the brutal prison environment, he is given a bleak collection of options in order to survive prison.
Source: Film / An Innocent Man
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