What's the difference between collation and snack?

Collation


Definition:

  • (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.

Snack


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A share; a part or portion; -- obsolete, except in the colloquial phrase, to go snacks, i. e., to share.
  • (v. t.) A slight, hasty repast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
  • (2) Preprandial and postprandial blood glucose levels were measured for each meal and snack (18 measurements per day).
  • (3) It is concluded that the development was influenced by several factors, such as different snacking habits and access to sweets, the study per se, and xylitol-induced effects.
  • (4) The traditionally larger meals of the day (lunch and dinner) represented higher proportions of daily intake in fat and obese children; the energy value of breakfast and afternoon snack was inversely related to corpulence.
  • (5) As I outlined during our meeting, I believe we can strengthen both of our companies by bringing them together, enhancing their worldwide scale and scope, and capitalizing on significant opportunities, building on the position of Kraft Foods Inc. ("Kraft Foods") as a global powerhouse in snacks, confectionery and quick meals for the benefit of all of our respective stakeholders.
  • (6) French adolescents eat as the preceding generation even if some behaviors (snacks, fastfood) may appear very different from those in adults.
  • (7) There are wild beaches for those prepared to tote their own supplies, but most have a shack selling drinks, ice-creams and snacks.
  • (8) The relations between reported frequency of consumption of 18 common snack foods, SES variables, and oral health scores were studied in 92 12-year-old children from three inner-city schools in Rochester, New York.
  • (9) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
  • (10) The cluster with the poorest dietary intake (high intake of fat, cholesterol, and alcohol; low intake of dietary fibre) showed on average a high consumption of animal products (except milk), fats and oils, snacks, and alcoholic beverages, and a low consumption of fruit, potatoes, vegetables, and sugar rich products.
  • (11) Two snacks ranked of approximately equal medium appeal were individually chosen from an array by each of 86 children (ages 4 years, 4 months to 7 years, 2 months).
  • (12) This involves ceaseless snacking of foodstuff with a low glycaemic load, foods that are mainly hummus or things that remind you of hummus or things that are called "hummus" but aren't, in an attempt to appeal to people who only eat hummus (butterbean hummus.
  • (13) The streets surrounding it are where locals go for snacks ( xiao chi ); Huguosi Xiaochi is a popular joint, as well as many other restaurants on the same stretch.
  • (14) But the long-term future of North Korea may be partly determined by a small, round, sugary snack from the South given as a reward to North Korean workers, say analysts.
  • (15) Feeling peckish, I ride to the lake’s official and slightly gaudy Strandbad, which is free to get in and has several snack stalls.
  • (16) However, its major interest could be observed during snacks and meals in order to control precisely post-prandial glucose variations, in association with blood glucose self-monitoring.
  • (17) We eat twice a day and snack at tea time, with leftovers and teas always available.
  • (18) The consumption of a carbohydrate-rich, protein-poor meal or snack can increase the synthesis of the brain neurotransmitter serotonin; proteins block this effect.
  • (19) It went into tinned soups, salad dressings, processed meats, carbohydrate-based snacks, ice cream, bread, canned tuna, chewing gum, baby food and soft drinks.
  • (20) In addition, extrudates were utilized to prepare snacks of better nutritional quality than existing similar commercial products.