collation vs potluck

collation

noun
  • Any light meal or snack. 

  • 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. 

  • A collection, a gathering. 

  • The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift. 

  • Presentation to a benefice. 

  • A reading held from the work mentioned above, as a regular service in Benedictine monasteries. 

  • The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance. 

  • The Collationes Patrum in Scetica Eremo Commorantium by John Cassian, an important ecclesiastical work. (Now usually with capital initial.) 

  • The act of bringing things together and comparing them; comparison. 

  • The act of collating pages or sheets of a book, or from printing etc. 

  • The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted. 

  • The light meal taken by monks after the reading service mentioned above. 

potluck

noun
  • A shared meal consisting of whatever guests have brought (sometimes without prior arrangement); a potlatch; also, a dish of food brought to such a meal. 

  • Whatever is available in a particular situation. 

verb
  • To take part in a potluck, where each participant brings a meal to be shared by all. 

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