(v. t.) The act of collating or comparing; a comparison of one copy er thing (as of a book, or manuscript) with another of a like kind; comparison, in general.
(v. t.) The gathering and examination of sheets preparatory to binding.
(v. t.) The act of conferring or bestowing.
(v. t.) A conference.
(v. t.) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
(v. t.) The act of comparing the copy of any paper with its original to ascertain its conformity.
(v. t.) The report of the act made by the proper officers.
(v. t.) The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equally with others who are of the same degree of kindred.
(v. t.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.
(v. t.) A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries.
(v. i.) To partake of a collation.
Example Sentences:
(1) By collating the results of those tests with the results of tests on previously collected samples, we have been able to discuss and observe age and sex susceptibilities and the mode of transmission of the naturally occurring disease.
(2) • The International Medical Corps is recruiting qualified healthcare practitioners, water, sanitation and environmental experts, psychosocial staff and logistics, human resources and finance professionals to work in Ebola treatment units in Sierra Leone and Liberia How to donate to aid agencies and organisations tackling Ebola USAid has collated a list of NGOs responding to Ebola .
(3) Subjects' responses were directly collated with those of their friends and indicated a clear covariation of smoking status (controlling for sex and age) as anticipated from previous research in which adolescents have been asked to report on the smoking habits of their friends.
(4) The review also draws on data on maternal deaths, collated on a triennial basis and published by the National Health and Medical Research Council.
(5) The Hunt file: doctors' dossier of patients 'put at risk' by health secretary Read more Hunt is under fire from doctors in a campaign that collates examples of such patients to illustrate what they call “the Hunt effect”.
(6) According to data from the Labour government's 2005 Count Me In census, which for the first time collated statistics on ethnic minorities in mental health services, black men and mixed race men are three or more times more likely than the general population to be admitted to a psychiatric unit.
(7) We have collated phenotypic and genotypic data on 1622 members of 128 families with tuberous sclerosis in order to evaluate simultaneously the evidence for these putative loci.
(8) scores are markedly lower than the passenger satisfaction results collated by the watchdog Passenger Focus from a far bigger sample.
(9) Scientists from Global Forest Watch collated 400,000 images of the Earth’s surface to map the world’s forests down to a resolution of 30 metres.
(10) The paper analyzes a province-wide database that collates statistical data from all inpatient and outpatient psychiatric services as well as from private physicians.
(11) This review collates the dietary, toxicological, immunological and chemical data available and presents the pre-requisite data concerning the 'Need' and low levels of utilization of GT.
(12) Labor knows from experience that inevitably some of their own side will also have erred, and that Coalition researchers will be, as we speak, collating any evidence of such cases.
(13) The responses were collated and compared by sex, age, size of burn, and evaluator (patient, parent, or physician).
(14) Responsibilities of the coordinating center have changed from a conventional coordinating center but remain substantial due to the need for collating, monitoring, verifying, and documenting the distributed data analysis (DDA) system.
(15) The authors believe that a collation of the tabulated data with the known mathematical models makes it possible to come to understanding some aspects of the pathogenesis of endogenic psychoses.
(16) Data from several studies on urinary nicotine concentrations and those of cotinine in blood, urine and saliva were collated.
(17) It emerged during the month-long trial that he had a collection of images of girls being abused and had collated pictures of April and her sisters from Facebook.
(18) The Knowledge Bank has collated open access information from all over the world, and also includes in-house data that Cabi has made freely available for the first time.
(19) Reports of single base-pair mutations within gene coding regions causing human genetic disease were collated.
(20) When our results are collated and correlated with new somatosensory cortical maps arrived at by microelectrode techniques (Pubols et al.
Comparison
Definition:
(n.) The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.
(n.) The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.
(n.) That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
(n.) The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison.
(n.) A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.
(n.) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
(v. t.) To compare.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
(2) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(3) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(4) Comparison with 194 age and sex matched subjects, without STD, were chosen as controls.
(5) A quantitative comparison of tissue distribution and excretion of an orally administered sublethal dose of [3H]diacetoxyscirpenol (anguidine) was made in rats and mice 90 min, 24 hr, and 7 days after treatment.
(6) A third group of healthy children was added for comparison.
(7) Errors in the initial direction of response were fewer in binocular viewing in comparison with monocular viewing.
(8) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
(9) Data collection at the old hospital for comparison, however, was not always reliable.
(10) Comparison if single injections of MSB and atropine in normal subjects also demonstrated a more reliable dose-response relationship with MSB.
(11) 1 The effects of chronic ethanol intake on the elimination kinetics of antipyrine were determined in nineteen male alcoholic subjects with comparison made to fourteen male volunteers.
(12) The lineage and clonality of Hodgkin's disease (HD) were investigated by analyzing the organization of the immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor beta-chain (T beta) gene loci in 18 cases of HD, and for comparison, in a panel of 103 cases of B- and T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) and lymphoid leukemias (LLs).
(13) In the hypertensive patients we have found decreased WBF, greater BV and FI in comparison with the control group (p less than 0.001).
(14) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
(15) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
(16) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(17) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
(18) In the second comparison, HSV was isolated from 225 of 1,026 (21.9%) specimens and duplicate human foreskin fibroblast cell wells stained at 24 and 72 h were PAP positive in 241 of 1,026 (23.5%).
(19) A comparison of chest pain description was performed between MI and non-MI subjects.
(20) This light microscopic comparison of viable FDA- and nonviable PI-stained cysts of G. muris demonstrates that 2 types of cysts can be distinguished and implies that structural differences can be used to identify these subpopulations of cysts.