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Juxtaposition vs Collation - What's the difference?

juxtaposition | collation |

As nouns the difference between juxtaposition and collation

is that juxtaposition is the nearness of objects with no delimiter while collation is bringing together.

As verbs the difference between juxtaposition and collation

is that juxtaposition is to place in juxtaposition while collation is (obsolete) to partake of a collation, or light meal.

juxtaposition

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The nearness of objects with no delimiter.
  • # (grammar) An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
  • Example: mother father'' instead of ''mother and father
  • # (mathematics) An absence of operators in an expression.
  • Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. a \times b \! collapses to ab\!.
  • #* 2007 , Lawrence Moss and Hans-Jörg Tiede, Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics'', in: P. Blackburn et al (eds), ''Handbook of Modal Logic , Elsevier, p. 1054
  • A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition .
  • The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
  • There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.
  • # (arts) Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
  • The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
  • # (rhetoric) The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
  • Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place in juxtaposition.
  • References

    * DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465. Music. ----

    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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