Collection vs Collation - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between collection and collation

is that collection is the act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred while collation is to partake of a collation, or light meal.

As nouns the difference between collection and collation

is that collection is a set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together while collation is bringing together.

As a verb collation is

to partake of a collation, or light meal.

collection

English

Noun

(en noun)

A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.

Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections , rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.

* (William Whewell)

Collections of moisture.

* Dunglison

A purulent collection .

Multiple related objects associated as a group.

* , chapter=5

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The activity of collecting.

(topology, analysis) A set of sets.

A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.

(obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.

* (John Milton)

We may safely say thus, that wrong collections have been hitherto made out of those words by modern divines.

(UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.

A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.

Derived terms

* collection agency * collection plate * minicollection * take up a collection

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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