Dictionary

collate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /kəˈleɪt/ (Canada, General-American)
• /kəˈlæɪt/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
• /ˈkoʊ.leɪt/ (Canada, General-American)
• /kəˈleɪt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Latin collātus, perfect passive participle of conferō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of confer. See also infer, delate and defer (Etymology 2), relate and refer, as well as prelate and prefer among others. Not related to collateral.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To examine diverse documents and so on, to discover similarities and differences.
   • I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew. c. 1831, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on the Book of Common Prayer:
   • collate results
   • collate data
   • collate information
   • collate findings
   • The young attorneys were set the task of collating the contract submitted by the other side with the previous copy.
2. (transitive) To assemble something in a logical sequence.
   • "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. 2021 September 22, John Potter tells Paul Stephen, “Your guide to Europe”, in RAIL, number 940, page 65:
   • 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 October 26, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC, page 106:
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.
   • Becauſe thoſe hereticall Biſhops being depoſed and reduced into Lay-communion, could not therefore collate baptiſme for their want of holy Orders: […] 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Section IV”, in Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. […], London: […] R[ichard] Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC, paragraph 4, page 23:
5. (transitive) 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.

Forms

Deriveds

collatable · collatee · miscollate · uncollated · collater · recollate

Relateds

collator · recollate · decollate · recollation · decollator · collation · decollation

Translations (47)

ru сравни́ть (examine diverse documents, etc.) · ga tabhair le chéile (assemble something in a logical sequence) · tr düzenlemek (assemble something in a logical sequence) · sv kollationera (examine diverse documents, etc.) · ga ceap (admit a cleric to a benefice) · ga cuir in ord (sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order) · eo ordizi (assemble something in a logical sequence) · de zuordnen (examine diverse documents, etc.) · de ordnen (assemble something in a logical sequence) · ru сопоставля́ть (examine diverse documents, etc.) · ru сра́внивать (examine diverse documents, etc.) · nl sorteren (assemble something in a logical sequence) · ga cuir i dtoll a chéile (assemble something in a logical sequence) · ru расположи́ть (assemble something in a logical sequence) · fi järjestää (assemble something in a logical sequence) · pt cotejar (examine diverse documents, etc.) · nl beroepen (admit a cleric to a benefice) · de abgleichen (examine diverse documents, etc.) · ru сличи́ть (examine diverse documents, etc.) · ca col·lacionar (examine diverse documents, etc.) · es colacionar (examine diverse documents, etc.) · no sammenligne (examine diverse documents, etc.) · ms mengumpul semak (examine diverse documents, etc.) · de anordnen (assemble something in a logical sequence) · mi whakahiato (assemble something in a logical sequence) · ko 함께 합치다 (sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order) · fi vertailla (examine diverse documents, etc.) · de sortieren (sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order) · ca col·lar (admit a cleric to a benefice) · tr harmanlamak (assemble something in a logical sequence) · ga comhthiomsaigh (assemble something in a logical sequence) · ru сопоста́вить (examine diverse documents, etc.) · fr collationner (examine diverse documents, etc.) · tr dizmek (assemble something in a logical sequence) · ms kumpul semak (examine diverse documents, etc.) · fi järjestää (sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order) · tr sıraya koymak (assemble something in a logical sequence) · de kollationieren (examine diverse documents, etc.) · ru располага́ть (assemble something in a logical sequence) · bg сравня́вам (examine diverse documents, etc.) · nl sorteren (sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order) · tr karşılaştırarak okumak (examine diverse documents, etc.) · fi asettaa kirkonmies virkaan (admit a cleric to a benefice) · ru слича́ть (examine diverse documents, etc.) · de vergleichen (examine diverse documents, etc.) · hu leválogat (sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order) · bg съпоставям (assemble something in a logical sequence)