Synonyms of the word

collation

• n. Bringing together.
• n. Discussion, light meal.
• n. (ecclesiastical) The presentation of a clergyman to a benefice by a bishop, who has it in his own gift.
• n. (civil law, inheritance) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in…
• n. (civil law, inheritance, Scotland) An heir's right to combine the whole heritable and movable estates…
• n. (obsolete) The act of conferring or bestowing.
• v. (obsolete) To partake of a collation, or light meal.

aggregation

• n. The act of collecting together (aggregating).
• n. The state of being collected into a mass, assemblage, or sum (aggregated).
• n. A collection of particulars; an aggregate.
• n. (networking) Summarizing multiple routes into one route.
• n. (epidemiology) The majority of the parasite population concentrated into a minority of the host population.
• n. (object-oriented programming) Kind of object composition which does not imply ownership.

assembling

• v. present participle of assemble.
• n. A gathering or assembly.

bite

• v. (transitive) To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
• v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
• v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
• v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some…
• v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
• v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be…
• v. (transitive) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
• v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so…
• v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
• v. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
• v. (intransitive, African American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
• n. The act of biting.
• n. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
• n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
• n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
• n. (slang) Something unpleasant.
• n. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
• n. A small meal or snack.
• n. (figuratively) aggression.
• n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of…
• n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
• n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
• n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else,…

collecting

• n. A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining…
• v. present participle of collect.

collection

• n. A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
• n. Multiple related objects associated as a group.
• n. The activity of collecting.
• n. (topology, analysis) A set of sets.
• n. A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
• n. (obsolete) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
• n. (Britain) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
• n. (in the plural, Britain, Oxford University slang) A set of college exams generally taken at the start…

comparing

• v. present participle of compare.

comparison

• n. The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
• n. An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each-other.
• n. With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
• n. (grammar) The ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees, as in hot, hotter, hottest.
• n. That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
• n. (rhetoric) A simile.
• n. (phrenology) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.

meal

• n. Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time (e.g. breakfast = morning meal, lunch = noon…
• n. Food served or eaten as a repast.
• n. (obsolete) A time or an occasion.
• n. The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than…
• n. (Britain dialectal) A speck or spot.
• n. A part; a fragment; a portion.
• v. (transitive) To defile or taint.

repast

• n. (now literary) A meal.
• n. (uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To supply food to; to feast.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take food.

snack

• n. A light meal.
• n. An item of food eaten between meals.
• v. to eat a light meal.
• v. to eat between meals.
• n. (obsolete) A share; a part or portion.