Collection vs. Collation
Collectionnoun
A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
Collectionnoun
Multiple related objects associated as a group.
Collectionnoun
The activity of collecting.
Collectionnoun
A set of sets.
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A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
Collectionnoun
(law) Debt collection.
Collectionnoun
(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
Collectionnoun
(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Collectionnoun
A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
Collectionnoun
The quality of being collected; calm composure.
Collectionnoun
The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
Collectionnoun
That which is collected
Collectionnoun
The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
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The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Collectionnoun
several things grouped together or considered as a whole
Collectionnoun
a publication containing a variety of works
Collectionnoun
request for a sum of money;
Collectionnoun
the act of gathering something together
Collectionnoun
the action or process of collecting someone or something
Collectionnoun
a regular removal of mail for dispatch or of refuse for disposal
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an instance of collecting money in a church service or for a charity
Collectionnoun
a sum of money raised during a church or charity collection.
Collectionnoun
a group of things or people
Collectionnoun
a group of accumulated items of a particular kind
Collectionnoun
a book or recording containing various texts, poems, songs, etc.
Collectionnoun
a range of new clothes produced by a fashion house
Collectionnoun
college examinations held at the beginning or end of a term, especially at Oxford University.
Collationnoun
Bringing together.
Collationnoun
The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
Collationnoun
The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
Collationnoun
A collection, a gathering.
Collationnoun
Discussion, light meal.
Collationnoun
(obsolete) A conference or consultation.
Collationnoun
(in the plural) The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
Collationnoun
A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
Collationnoun
The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
Collationnoun
Any light meal or snack.
Collationnoun
(ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
Collationnoun
The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
Collationnoun
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.
Collationnoun
(obsolete) The act of conferring or bestowing.
Collationnoun
(ecclesiastical) Presentation to a benefice.
Collationverb
(obsolete) To partake of a collation, or light meal.
Collationnoun
The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general.
Collationnoun
The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.
Collationnoun
The act of conferring or bestowing.
Collationnoun
A conference.
Collationnoun
The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
Collationnoun
The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.
Collationnoun
The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
Collationnoun
A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.
Collationnoun
A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; - first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries.
Collationverb
To partake of a collation.
Collationnoun
a light informal meal
Collationnoun
assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence
Collationnoun
careful examination and comparison to note points of disagreement
Collationnoun
the action of collating something
Collationnoun
a light informal meal
Collationnoun
(in the Roman Catholic Church) a light meal allowed during a fast.
Collation
Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order. Many systems of collation are based on numerical order or alphabetical order, or extensions and combinations thereof.
