collate — English Dictionary

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collate

Pronunciations (6)

Verb

To examine diverse documents and so on, to discover similarities and differences.
Usage
- Transitive
Examples

The young attorneys were set the task of collating the contract submitted by the other side with the previous copy.

collate data

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collate findings

collate information

collate results

I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew.
To assemble something in a logical sequence.
Usage
- Transitive
Examples

More examples (2)

Detest your own age. Build a better one. And to set that on foot read incredibly dull essays upon Marlowe to your friends. For which purpose one must collate editions in the British Museum.

"Once collated, all files are sent to an external printing business with a turnaround time of about seven days, and then most of the distribution is done in-house.
To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.
Usage
- Transitive
Examples

Collating was still necessary because they had to insert foldout sheets and index tabs into the documents.
To bestow or confer.
Usage
- Obsolete
Examples

Becauſe thoſe hereticall Biſhops being depoſed and reduced into Lay-communion, could not therefore collate baptiſme for their want of holy Orders: […]
To admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to.
Usage
- Transitive

Word forms

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