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Definition: Collation |
CollationNoun1. A light informal meal. 2. Assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence. 3. Careful examination and comparison to note points of disagreement. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "collation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Military | In intelligence usage, a step in the processing phase of the intelligence cycle in which the grouping together of related items of information provides a record of events and facilitates further processing. See also intelligence cycle. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| COL | English | Collation Please/I collate | Computing, Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CollationSynonyms: bite (n), nosh (n), snack (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Comparison | Noun: comparison, collation, contrast; identification; comparative estimate, relative estimate, relativity. |
Food | Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Collation |
| English words defined with "collation": Collative ♦ Spiritual incest. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "collation": intelligence cycle ♦ nuclear, biological, chemical collection center ♦ Secor, Secor/DME. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "collation": Collatitious. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Collation" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (collation). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Poland | Marian Krzaklewski was the leader of the AWS, and Leszek Miller led the SLD. In June 2000, UW withdrew from the governing collation, leaving AWS at the helm of a minority government. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Collation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Collation" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 52 | 47,145 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "collation": cold collation ♦ Collation of seals. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
collation food tray | 13 |
cannot collation conflict equal operation resolve | 5 |
collation tray | 5 |
collation | 3 |
automatic collation | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "collation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vaktë i lehtë, sistemim (disposition, regulation), shqyrtim (analysis, assay, canvass, check, checkup, debate, deliberation, discussion, hearing, investigation, probe, processing, scan, scrutiny, study, survey), krahasim (compare, comparison, parallel, parallelism, simile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وجبة طعام خفيفة (refreshment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сравняване, сверка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 对 (checkup). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | porovnání (comparison, trade off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kollation (collating, comparison), bearbejdning (conversion, machining, processing, tooling, working with cutting tools). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | collatie (restoration of gifts and legacies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقایسه (Analogy, Comparison, Resemblance), مقابله (Contrast, Opposition), تطبیق دستخطها, تطبیق (Adjustment, Comparison, Harmony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ulkoasutiedot. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | collation (collating, comparison). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vergleichung (collating, comparison), kollation (comparison). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αντιπαραβολή (contrast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egyeztetés (agreement, checking, checking up, conciliation, coordination, correlation, harmonizing, reconciliation, syncretism), könnyű étkezés, egybevetés, összevetés (comparison, cross-checks, cross-checks on information), összeolvasás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | perbandingan (comparison, example, ratio). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | confronto (assimilation, compare, comparison, confrontation, parallel), collazionatura (collating, comparison), colazione (breakfast, dinner, lunch, luncheon, midday, midday meal), riscontro (comparison, confirmation, reply), descrizione fisica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 照合 (comparison), 合 (examining and comparing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょう"う (comparison, degree, firm name, name, title, trade name), きょう"う (arrogance, champion, contend with, crying aloud, examining and comparing, pride, quarrel, veteran), "う"う (empress, examining and comparing, incense container, queen, sexual union). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 대조 (checkup, Collating, Contrast, Contrasting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhongey (feed, grub, oatmeal, repast, sustenance), cur ayns oardrailys (collate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollationcay conferência (assemblage, conference, congress, lecture, negotiation, parley, parling, prelection, reading, recount, speech, talk, travel-film, travelogue), colação (collating, comparison, restoration of gifts and legacies, snack). (various references) colaţiune, colaţionare, gustare (gustation, lunch, refection, refreshment, relish, snack, tasting, tuck in), aperitiv (aperitif, appetizer, bitters, relish, snack, stomachic, whet). (various references) сличение. (various references) upoređivaje, sravnjivanje, kolacioniranje. (various references) cotejo (comparison), colación (collating, comparison). (various references) lätt måltid (snack), jämförelse (comparison, parallel, parallelism). (various references) tanımlama (characterization, definition, description, explanation, portraiture, portrayal, specification), karşılaştırma (analogy, check, comparision, crosscheck, reference), hafif yemek (refection, refreshment, snack, tiffin), aperatif (aperitif, appetizer, snack, starter, whet). (various references) коляція, звіряння (verification), закуска (appetizer), порівняння (assimilation, comparison, confrontation, simile, similitude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "collation": collations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "collation": decollation. (additional references) | |
Words containing "collation": decollations. (additional references) | |
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"Collation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cellation, clonation, coalation, coallation, coblation, coelation, coellation, coglation, Colaton, colaytion, coletion, colition, colletion, Collezione, Colliton, colvation, Coollattin, Culleton, Koolatron, olation, polation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-l-n-o-o-t" | |
-1 letter: colonial, cotillon, location. | |
-2 letters: coolant, octanol. | |
-3 letters: action, alnico, atonic, cation, catlin, citola, clinal, clonal, coital, coloni, latino, lintol, lotion, oilcan, talion, tincal. | |
-4 letters: actin, allot, aloin, antic, atoll, canto, cloot, coati, colin, colon, conto, cotan, lilac, linac, llano, local, lotic, nicol, notal, octal, octan, ontic, talon, tical, tolan, tonal, tonic. | |
-5 letters: alit, alto, anil. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-l-n-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: allocation, allocution, collations, locational. | |
+2 letters: allocations, allocutions, antialcohol, colligation, collimation, collocating, collocation, colonialist, decollation, ontological, oscillation. | |
+3 letters: anthological, anticolonial, colligations, collimations, collocations, colonialists, compellation, decollations, ethnological, flocculation, isotonically, localization, locationally, microtonally, monometallic, nonpolitical, oscillations, postcolonial, reallocation, vocationally. | |
+4 letters: anticollision, anticolonials, autonomically, avocationally, collaborating, collaboration, collocational, colonialistic, compellations, conditionally, constellation, correlational, deontological, entomological, flocculations, glycosylation, illocutionary, intercolonial, jollification, lactoglobulin, localizations, misallocation, mollification, monotonically, nematological, noncollegiate, onomastically, ontologically, oscillational, paleontologic, reallocations, suballocation, taxonomically, technological, volcanologist, vulcanologist. | |
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