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noun
Bringing together.
The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Bringing together.
The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Bringing together.
A collection, a gathering.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Discussion, light meal.
A conference or consultation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Discussion, light meal.
The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable
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noun
Discussion, light meal.
A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Discussion, light meal.
The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Discussion, light meal.
Any light meal or snack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ecclesiastical, lifestyle, religion
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noun
The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: civil law; inheritance; civil law; inheritance
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Synonyms: hotchpot
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, countable, uncountable
Qualifier: civil law; inheritance; civil law; inheritance
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noun
The act of conferring or bestowing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Presentation to a benefice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ecclesiastical, lifestyle, religion
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noun
The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, databases, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, textual-criticism
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verb
To partake of a collation, or light meal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
careful examination and comparison to note points of disagreement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: comparison, comparing
noun
assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: collection, collecting, assembling, aggregation
noun
a light informal meal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bite, snack
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Broader terms: meal, repast
Narrower terms: refreshment, nosh, coffee break, tea break
History
From Middle English collacioun, collation, from Old French collation, from Latin collatiō, from the participle stem of cōnferō (“to bring together”).
Across languages
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
