collation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English collacioun, collation, from Old French collation, from Latin collatiō, from the participle stem of cōnferō (“to bring together”).
Inflected forms:
form: collations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Bringing together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: November 8, 1717, The Bishop of Rochester, letter to Alexander Pope
I return you your Milton, which, upon collation, I find to be revised, and augmented, in several places
The collation of philosophical opinions, the study of historical facts, the acquirement of languages, were at once my recreation, and the serious aim of my life.
gloss: Bringing together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Bringing together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It's fantastic, as is so much of Forgiveness Rock Record, a collation of so many talents that it's practically bursting at the seams.
gloss: Discussion, light meal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Discussion, light meal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: A certain abbot, named Moses, thus testifieth of himself in the Collations of Cassianus, that he so afflicted himself with much fasting and watching, that sometimes, for two or three days together, not only he felt no appetite to eat, but also had no remembrance of any meat at all […]
gloss: Discussion, light meal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When the hymn was over the Sacrist was to strike the table for collation, and the Deacon to enter with the Gospel, preceded by three converts, carrying the candlestick and censer.
gloss: Discussion, light meal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Discussion, light meal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her first glance was one of triumph—her next was one of mingled admiration and gratitude for Louis; and, accepting his offered hand, they led the way to the banquet prepared in the Palais Orion,—a favourite garden-house, where they often had collations when the party was but small, which was the case to-day.
There were some unofficial local rejoicings, but none of the elaborate junketings which marked the birth of earlier railways. The company had little cash to spend on sumptuous cold collations, and the like.
Yes, absolutely; supper, at least in English tradition, was a cold collation, left out by cook before retiring.
gloss: The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of conferring or bestowing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Not by the collation of the king […] but by the people.
gloss: Presentation to a benefice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of establishing a corrected text of a work by comparing differing manuscripts or editions of it; also used to describe the work resulting from such a process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: collocation
co-locating
co-location
Derived words: cold collation
collational
collationer
miscollation
recollation
Translations:
lang: Hungarian
word: összevetés
lang: Hungarian
word: egybevetés
lang: Hungarian
word: leválogatás
lang: Hungarian
word: összehordás
lang: Māori
word: whakahiatotanga
lang: Spanish
word: colación
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: تطبیق
roman: tatbik
lang: Catalan
word: col·lació
lang: Greek
word: κολατσιό
roman: kolatsió
lang: Hungarian
word: uzsonna
lang: Irish
word: colláid
lang: Irish
word: scroid
lang: Portuguese
word: pequeno almoço
lang: Spanish
word: colación