Verification vs Collation - What's the difference?
verification | collation |
The act of verifying.
The state of being verified.
Confirmation; authentication.
(legal) A formal phrase used in concluding a plea, to denote confirmation by evidence.
(mathematics) The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.
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
As nouns the difference between verification and collation
is that verification is the act of verifying while collation is bringing together.As a verb collation is
to partake of a collation, or light meal.verification
English
Noun
(en noun)- The detective needs verification of your whereabouts last night.
Derived terms
* verification principleSee also
* (Formal verification)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.