Collate

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /kɒˈleɪt/
• US IPA: /ˈkoÊŠ.leɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt
• Hyphenation: col + late

Origin

From Latin collatum, past participle of cōnferō.

Full definition of collate

Verb

1. (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.
• ColeridgeI must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew.
2. (transitive) To assemble something in a logical sequence.
• 1922, Virginia Woolf, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 101Detest 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.
3. (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.
4. (obsolete) To bestow or confer.
5. (transitive, Christianity) 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.

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