collation
- noun
- /kəˈleɪʃən/
- Formal
:
cotejo
- She also presents a collation and critical interpretation of the novel in this textual study.
Examples
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Even those scholars who read its autobiography acknowledge that the collation of multiple editions and manuscripts of Moodie's text "reveals telling manipulations of phrase and detail" (Peterman 40).
Academic text (2014) -
But his collation of Marx and de Certeau into twin foundations of a "culture of use" is unstable.
Academic text (2004) -
Indeed, such a collation might have pointed away from Hawaii.
Academic text (1991) -
And you know, that kind of degrading language, you know, we were just talking about small penis collation and so forth.
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It is the second of the collations on the Six Days of Creation, where Bonaventure speaks of the form of wisdom.
Academic text (2008) -
An index of poetic forms in which synonyms are arranged in alphabetical order in collation with the songs of the Edda and the Icelandic language.
Academic text (1996) -
Of the 219 fish species identified in our data collation of fauna recorded from peat swamps, 80 species are restricted to this ecosystem, 31 of which are point endemic species found only in single locations.
Academic text (2011) -
The historian conducted a collation of ancient manuscripts to identify discrepancies in the texts.
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During the workshop, participants performed a collation of various printings of the book to note the differences.
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The professor's collation of different editions of the poem highlighted several key variations in wording.
Synonyms
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A study of different copies of a writing to find its original words
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Collation comes from Latin collatio, built from con- 'together' and ferre 'to carry'. So a collation is literally 'bringing things together', which helps you remember the work of comparing texts to find differences.