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topical
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adjective
pertaining to the surface of a body part
a drug for topical (or local) application
a topical anesthesia
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adjective
of or relating to or arranged by topics
a detailed record on both a chronological and a topical basis
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adjective
of interest at the present time
a topical reference
a topical and timely study of civil liberty
collection
Noun
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A collection is a group of things of the same type. They are usually special in some way.
He has one of the biggest collections of paintings by Van Gogh.
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If you take a collection, you ask many people for money, for a particular reason.
The school took a collection for new books.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
document
Noun
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A document is a written record, often official.
They stopped her at the airport and checked all her documents.
A number of Chinese documents from 1000 span size="-2"BCE/span were recently discovered.
On March 28, 1990, the government published a document listing the companies which it intended to privatize.
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A document is a kind of computer text file.
Can you send me that document by e-mail or fax?
We should be able to edit your document using MS Word.
document
Verb
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If you document something, you make a record of it, usually in writing.
It's important for newspaper reporters to be there to document the war.
We have documented number cases in which he has broken company policy.