Crossword clues for collating
collating
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of collate English)
Usage examples of "collating".
Computers were wonderful at collecting and collating data, but they could never really interpret it the way a human could.
After all, the Guild has been operating for over four hundred years galactic, all that time collecting and collating information on its members.
Those hunched over desk monitors, busily collating reports, tried to ignore the tension emanating from the departmental heads who occupied the very center of the room in a tight knot, each one with an eye out for the screens displaying reports on his or her specialty.
He had actually let her sit around doing make-work most of the afternoon, only to call her in at twenty minutes till five and load the copying for this stupid presentation package that mysteriously required very elaborate collating and had to be ready for his review by seven the next morning.
The convenient thing for her, once she got the copying and collating done, was that, with Pryce gone, she was the only person in the office and she had a perfect excuse for being there.
The collating provided an excuse to go into an area marked storage down the hall.
I'm collating all the information on this latest outbreak of alleged old Nazis.
Those hunched over desk monitors, busily collating reports, tried to ignore the tension emanating from the departmental heads who occupied the very center of the room in a tight knot, each one with an eye out for the screens displaying reports on his or her specialty.