Crossword clues for collation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collation \Col*la"tion\, v. i. To partake of a collation. [Obs.]
May 20, 1658, I . . . collationed in Spring Garden.
--Evelyn.
Collation \Col*la"tion\, n. [OE. collacioun speech, conference, reflection, OF. collacion, F. collation, fr. L. collatio a bringing together, comparing, fr. collatum (used as the supine of conferre); col- + latium (used as the supine of ferre to bear), for tlatum. See Tolerate, v. t.]
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.
--Pope.(Print.) The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.
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The act of conferring or bestowing. [Obs.]
Not by the collation of the king . . . but by the people.
--Bacon. A conference. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.(Eccl. Law) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
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(Law)
The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.
The report of the act made by the proper officers.
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(Scots Law) 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.
Note: This also obtains in the civil law, and is found in the code of Louisiana.
--Bouvier. (Eccles.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.
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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.
A collation of wine and sweetmeats.
--Whiston.Collation of seals (Old Law), a method of ascertaining the genuineness of a seal by comparing it with another known to be genuine.
--Bouvier.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "act of bringing together," from Old French collation (13c.) "collation, comparison, discussion" (also "a light supper"), from Latin collationem (nominative collatio), noun of action from collatus, irregular past participle of conferre "to bring together" (see collate). The word has had many meanings over the centuries. As the title of a popular 5c. religious work by John Cassian, "Collation" was sometimes translated into Old English as Þurhtogenes.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Bringing together. 2 # The act of bringing things together and compare them; comparison. (from 14th c.) 3 # The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc. (from 19th c.) 4 # A collection, a gathering. (from 20th c.) 5 Discussion, light meal. 6 # (context obsolete English) A conference or consultation. (14th-17th c.) 7 # (context in the plural English) The ''Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium'' by (w: John Cassian), an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.) (from 13th c.) 8 # A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monastery. (from 14th c.) 9 # The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above. (from 14th c.) 10 # Any light meal or snack. (from 16th c.) 11 (context ecclesiastical English) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift. 12 (context legal Scotland English) 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. 13 (context obsolete English) The act of conferring or bestowing. vb. (context obsolete English) To partake of a collation, or light meal.
WordNet
Wikipedia
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. Collation is a fundamental element of most office filing systems, library catalogs, and reference books.
Collation differs from classification in that classification is concerned with arranging information into logical categories, while collation is concerned with the ordering of items of information, usually based on the form of their identifiers. Formally speaking, a collation method typically defines a total order on a set of possible identifiers, called sort keys, which consequently produces a total preorder on the set of items of information (items with the same identifier are not placed in any defined order).
A collation algorithm such as the Unicode collation algorithm defines an order through the process of comparing two given character strings and deciding which should come before the other. When an order has been defined in this way, a sorting algorithm can be used to put a list of any number of items into that order.
The main advantage of collation is that it makes it fast and easy for a user to find an element in the list, or to confirm that it is absent from the list. In automatic systems this can be done using a binary search algorithm or interpolation search; manual searching may be performed using a roughly similar procedure, though this will often be done unconsciously. Other advantages are that one can easily find the first or last elements on the list (most likely to be useful in the case of numerically sorted data), or elements in a given range (useful again in the case of numerical data, and also with alphabetically ordered data when one may be sure of only the first few letters of the sought item or items).
The term collation originates in the Roman Catholic Church, where it refers to the two small meals allowed on days of fasting, with or without abstinence. Traditionally, the reading in Benedictine monasteries of excerpts from Collationes patrum in scetica eremo, written by John Cassian, was followed by a light meal. In modern Italian, the two small meals are the prima colazione (breakfast) and seconda colazione (lunch). The word "colazione" itself in the general language now means "breakfast" (whereas the English "break their fast" for breakfast; lunch is pranzo in Italian).
In library, information and computer science, collation is the process of assembling written information into a standard order.
Collation may also have the following meanings:
- Collation (meal), a light meal in some religious traditions
- In succession law, collation is an act of estimating the value of the intestate property
- In religious law, collation is the legal process and ritual act by which a Parish Priest is appointed to his living, especially in the Anglican Church
- In textual criticism and bibliography, collation is the process of determining the differences between two or more texts found in the detailed bibliography of a book or the comparison of the physical makeup of two copies of a book
- In printing and photocopying, bookbinding, also called collation, is ordering pages when several copies of a document are bound after printing or copying
Usage examples of "collation".
Dawson mark the findspot and deposit the pin in a clear polythene bag marked with the excavation number, Nora felt a small part of herself resisting the very idea of collection, collation, enumeration.
James lay in the arms of the nurserymaid and Aunt Elizabeth, who was glad to get off her feet, and the little boys stared in wide-awake astonishment at the glowing lanterns and ignored all their well-wishers, who moved on speedily to the collation table for cider and ham anyway.
We joined a crowd going into a tent and there we saw my other old school acquaintance, Porker Plumstead, sitting mournfully in a corner with a cold collation on his knees.
While the party partook of a collation of fruit and coffee, the horns, placed in a distant part of the woods, where an echo sweetened and prolonged their melancholy tones, broke softly on the stillness of the scene.
I was grateful to my charmers for having thought of my stomach, but as I had purposely made a late and heavy meal I determined to defer the consumption of my cold collation till a later hour.
She had taken care to get me a little collation, which looked delicious, but which I could not touch, my appetite lying in another quarter.
At supper-time Clementine, accompanied by a servant, brought me a delicate cold collation, and told me that the bank had won.
He placed a magnificent collation before the Electress, and sang a song of his own composition, accompanying himself on the piano.
If my estimate of the character of Smith is not that which his biographers have entertained, and differs from his own candid opinion, I can only plead that contemporary evidence and a collation of his own stories show that he was mistaken.
Patrum, his four first books of Institutes, and the twenty-four Collations or Conferences.
Ladies come hither sometimes in the summer with collations, and smugglers make them storehouses for clandestine merchandise.
The alcove called `the buttery' had a cold-table collation laid out ample for forty guests, with a few hot dishes on the end - roast pig with apple in mouth, baked peacock with feathers restored, a few such tidbits.
He had prepared a collation for me in the Barnwell parlour, and he too ordered his shopman to “come out of the gangway” as my sacred person passed.
Solomon Pell in court, regaling himself, business being rather slack, with a cold collation of an Abernethy biscuit and a saveloy.
As the last sanap was removed in preparation for the final collation, all entremets disappeared and an orchestra played soft music from the gallery.