collate
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Latin collatum, past participle of cōnferō.
Verb[edit]
collate (third-person singular simple present collates, present participle collating, simple past and past participle collated)
- (transitive) To examine diverse documents et cetera to discover similarities and differences.
- The young attorneys were set the task of collating the contract submitted by the other side with the previous copy.
- (transitive) To assemble something in a logical sequence.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 101
- 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.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 101
- (transitive) To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.
- Collating was still necessary because they had to insert foldout sheets and index tabs into the documents.
- (transitive, Christianity) To admit a cleric to a benefice.
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Related terms
Translations[edit]
examine diverse documents etc.
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assemble something in a logical sequence
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sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order
admit a cleric to a benefice
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Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
collāte
- vocative masculine singular of collātus
