collation

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Bringing together.
2. (countable, uncountable) Bringing together.
3. (countable, uncountable) Bringing together.
4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Discussion, light meal.
5. (countable, in-plural, uncountable) Discussion, light meal.
6. (countable, uncountable) Discussion, light meal.
7. (countable, uncountable) Discussion, light meal.
8. (countable, uncountable) Discussion, light meal.
9. (countable, uncountable) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
10. (countable, uncountable) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
11. (Scotland, countable, uncountable) 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.
12. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) The act of conferring or bestowing.
13. (countable, uncountable) Presentation to a benefice.
14. (countable, uncountable) The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
15. (countable, uncountable) 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.

Verb

To partake of a collation, or light meal.

Synonyms

comparison

snack

checking

contrast

check

bite

collate

control

correlation

juxtaposition

marshal

matching

nosh

ordination

rearrange

rearrangement

refection

refreshment

reorganization

sequencing

setting

synthesis

verification

writing

examining and comparing

obtend

light repast

snack food

arrangement

collation formula

collating

compare

composition

configuration

confrontation

contradistinction

Translations

colación

Vergleichung

col·lació

cotejo

collation

Kollation

collazione

merenda

vergelijking

hafif yemek

spuntino

casse-croûte

Vergleich

goûter

Mahlzeit

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˈleɪʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: collacioun

In summary

From Middle English collacioun, collation, from Old French collation, from Latin collatiō, from the participle stem of cōnferō (“to bring together”).