Collation vs Coalition - What's the difference?
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Bringing together.
# The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison.
# 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:
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 reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries.
#* 1843 , TD Fosbroke, British Monachism , p. 52:
# 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:
(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
(obsolete) To partake of a collation, or light meal.
* Evelyn
A temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.
* 2013 May 23, , "
As nouns the difference between collation and coalition
is that collation is bringing together while coalition is a temporary group or union of organizations, usually formed for a particular advantage.As a verb collation
is to partake of a collation, or light meal.collation
English
(wikipedia collation)Noun
- (Alexander Pope)
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Yes, absolutely; supper, at least in English tradition, was a cold collation , left out by cook before retiring.
- Not by the collation of the king but by the people.
Verb
(en verb)- May 20, 1658, I collationed in Spring Garden.
coalition
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties formed a coalition government in 2010.
British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- At a time when Mr. Cameron is being squeezed from both sides — from the right by members of his own party and by the anti-immigrant, anti-Europe U.K. Independence Party, and from the left by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners — the move seemed uncharacteristically clunky.