collage

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An artistic composition of materials and objects pasted over a surface, often with unifying lines and color.
2. n. A work, such as a literary piece, composed of both borrowed and original material.
3. n. The art of creating such compositions.
4. n. An assemblage of diverse elements: a collage of conflicting memories.
5. v. To paste (diverse materials) over a surface, thereby creating an artistic product.
6. v. To create such an artistic product.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The process of clearing wine by means of isinglass or gelatin.

Wiktionary

1. n. A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface.
2. n. A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc..
3. n. uncountable The technique of producing such a work of art that is a collage.
4. v. transitive To make into a collage.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. any picture made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs, especially in unusual or surprising ways.
2. n. the technique of producing a work of art that is a collage{1}.
3. n. any composite object, whether abstract or concrete, created by assembling components of varied types.
4. n. (Cinema) a film having scenes of different types or from different locations displayed in rapid succession without transitions.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image
2. n. any collection of diverse things