assignment vs collection

assignment

noun
  • The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category. 

  • A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another. 

  • A document that effects this transfer. 

  • The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks. 

  • An assigned task. 

  • The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex. 

  • An operation that assigns a value to a variable. 

  • A position to which someone is assigned. 

  • A task given to students, such as homework or coursework. 

collection

noun
  • Multiple related objects associated as a group. 

  • A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term. 

  • A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set. 

  • The jurisdiction of a collector of excise. 

  • The activity of collecting. 

  • The quality of being collected; calm composure. 

  • A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations. 

  • A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together. 

  • Debt collection. 

How often have the words assignment and collection occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )