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col·late    Audio Help   [kuh-leyt, koh-, ko-, koh-leyt, kol-eyt] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object), -lat·ed, -lat·ing.
1.to gather or arrange in their proper sequence (the pages of a report, the sheets of a book, the pages of several sets of copies, etc.).
2.Bookbinding. to verify the arrangement of (the gathered sheets of a book), usually by inspecting the signature at the foot of the first page of each sheet or the mark printed on the back of each sheet or on the spine of each signature.
3.to compare (texts, statements, etc.) in order to note points of agreement or disagreement.
4.Bibliography. to verify the number and order of the sheets of (a volume) as a means of determining its completeness.
5.Computers. to merge (sequenced data from two or more data sets or files) to produce a new sequenced data set or file.
6.Ecclesiastical. to present by collation, as to a benefice.

[Origin: 1550–60; < L collātus (ptp. of conferre to bring together), equiv. to col- col-1 + lā- (suppletive s. of ferre) + -tus ptp. ending]

col·lat·a·ble, adjective
col·la·tor, noun
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col·late    Audio Help   (kə-lāt', kŏl'āt', kō'lāt')  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   col·lat·ed, col·lat·ing, col·lates
  1. To examine and compare carefully in order to note points of disagreement.
  2. To assemble in proper numerical or logical sequence.
  3. Printing
    1. To examine (gathered sheets) in order to arrange them in proper sequence before binding.
    2. To verify the order and completeness of (the pages of a volume).
  4. Ecclesiastical To admit (a cleric) to a benefice.


[From Latin collātus, past participle of cōnferre, to bring together : com-, com- + lātus, brought; see telə- in Indo-European roots.]

col·la'tor n.
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collate 
1612, from L. collatus, pp. of conferre "to bring together," from com- "together" + ferre "to bear" (see infer). Collation, with many meanings over the centuries, is attested from c.1374. As the title of a popular 5c. religious work by John Cassian, "Collation" was sometimes translated into O.E. as þurhtogenes.

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collate

verb
1. compare critically; of texts 
2. to assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers" 

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Collate

Ac*couche"ment\ (#; 277), n. [F., fr. accoucher to be delivered of a child, to aid in delivery, OF. acouchier orig. to lay down, put to bed, go to bed; L. ad + collocare to lay, put, place. See Collate.] Delivery in childbed
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Collate

Col*late"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collated; p. pr. & vb. n. Collating.] [From Collation.]

1. To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.

I must collage it, word, with the original Hebrew. --Coleridge.

2. To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.

3. (Eccl.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.

4. To bestow or confer. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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