Crossword clues for collate
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collate \Col*late"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collated; p. pr. & vb. n. Collating.] [From Collation.]
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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. To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.
(Eccl.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.
To bestow or confer. [Obs.]
--Jer. Taylor.
Collate \Col*late"\, v. i. (Ecl.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.
If the bishop neglets to collate within six months, the
right to do it devolves on the archbishop.
--Encyc.
Brit.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To examine diverse documents et cetera to discover similarity and differences. 2 (context transitive English) To assemble something in a logical sequence. 3 (context transitive English) To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding. 4 (context obsolete English) To bestow or confer. 5 (context transitive Christianity English) 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''.
WordNet
v. compare critically; of texts
to assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers"
Usage examples of "collate".
The citations are from this last edition, which I collated at Assisi with the most important of the rare manuscripts at present known: Archives of Sacro Convento, MS.
Activate sensors to infeed data for any signs of intelligent life, and collate the information.
Was processed to grieve for absenting of popmaize and fellow random numerologist with whom to collate speculatings.
YOU be able to help me in collating your notes of the Tikopia observations this morning, sir?
On top of that, few human brains were capable of collating the avalanche of information the battlesuits provided, of shifting back and forth under the most extreme pressure, between complex real and virtual environments, and, in a fraction of a second, making critical and correct decisions.
And the private infra-red cameras installed by shopping precincts, business developments and public buildings that have to monitor occupancy to comply with fire regulations can be downloaded into a number of West End video suites, where the tapes are collated within a digitalised computer system and stored as back-up copies.
Indeed, certain of the most authentic historians of those parts, who have been careful in collecting and collating the floating facts concerning this spectre, allege that the body of the trooper, having been buried in the churchyard, the ghost rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head, and that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast, is owing to his being belated and in a hurry to get back to the churchyard before daybreak.
His first living was Llandanwg, and not Llanfair, to which he was collated on January 1st, 1705.
It was their job to collate all available data, to make the best possible analyses and, on that basis, project the enemy's options and probable intentions for the handful of men and women charged with devising the Royal Manticoran Navy's responses and strategy.
Hereupon the Arhats and Bhikshus observant of the rules, to the number in all of 700 monks, examined afresh and collated the collection of disciplinary books.
Such collating, or "proofreading," whose purpose was to remove "errors," became the reason and justification for the rise of bisexuality.
When the printer stopped, she collated the pages, stapled them together, and lifted her phone.
We have found something which may prove to have significance later, when it is collated with our other information.
Details are slowly emerging of the extraordinary proliferation of sightings and evidence now being collated by researchers in both the Soviet Union and China.
They collected casts of footprints, pieces of hair, faeces and, most importantly, they collated the many accounts of 'wildmen' from the local people.