Alignment vs Collation - What's the difference?

alignment | collation |

As nouns the difference between alignment and collation

is that alignment is an arrangement of items in a line while collation is bringing together.

As a verb collation is

(obsolete) to partake of a collation, or light meal.

alignment

English

Noun

(en noun)

An arrangement of items in a line.

The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.

An alliance of factions.

(astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.

(transport) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.

(gaming) In a roleplaying game, one of a set number of philosophical attitudes a character can take.

(bioinformatic) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.

Derived terms

* stone alignment

Anagrams

* lamenting

collation

English

(wikipedia collation)

Noun

Bringing together.

# The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.

(Alexander Pope)

# The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc.

# A collection, a gathering.

#* 2010 , Will Dean, The Guardian , 29 Apr 2010:

It's fantastic, as is so much of Forgiveness Rock Record, a collation of so many talents that it's practically bursting at the seams.

Discussion, light meal.

# (obsolete) A conference or consultation.

# (in the plural) The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by (John Cassian), an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.)

#* 1563 , John Foxe, Acts and Monuments , vol. 2, p. 55:

A certain abbot, named Moses, thus testifieth of himself in the Collations of Cassianus, that he so afflicted himself with much fasting and watching, that sometimes, for two or three days together, not only he felt no appetite to eat, but also had no remembrance of any meat at all

# A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.

#* 1843 , TD Fosbroke, British Monachism , p. 52:

When the hymn was over the Sacrist was to strike the table for collation , and the Deacon to enter with the Gospel, preceded by three converts, carrying the candlestick and censer.

# The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above.

# Any light meal or snack.

#* 2008 , Tim Hayward, The Guardian , 13 May 08:

Yes, absolutely; supper, at least in English tradition, was a cold collation , left out by cook before retiring.

(ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.

(legal, Scotland) 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.

(obsolete) The act of conferring or bestowing.

* Francis Bacon

Not by the collation of the king but by the people.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To partake of a collation, or light meal.

* Evelyn

May 20, 1658, I collationed in Spring Garden.

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