Dictionary Entry
collation
collation is a 9-letter English word with 14 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.
- 3transitive verb
The act of conferring or bestowing.
- 4transitive verb
A conference.
- 5transitive verb
The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
- 6transitive verb
The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.
- 7transitive verb
The report of the act made by the proper officers.
- 8transitive verb
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.
- 9transitive verb
A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.
- 10transitive verb
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.
- 11intransitive verb
To partake of a collation.
- 12noun
careful examination and comparison to note points of disagreement
- 13noun
assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence
- 14noun
a light informal meal
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