collate
verb /kəˈleɪt/
/kəˈleɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they collate | /kəˈleɪt/ /kəˈleɪt/ |
| he / she / it collates | /kəˈleɪts/ /kəˈleɪts/ |
| past simple collated | /kəˈleɪtɪd/ /kəˈleɪtɪd/ |
| past participle collated | /kəˈleɪtɪd/ /kəˈleɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form collating | /kəˈleɪtɪŋ/ /kəˈleɪtɪŋ/ |
- collate something to collect information together from different sources in order to examine and compare it
- to collate data/information/figures
- collate something to collect pieces of paper or the pages of a book, etc. and arrange them in the correct order
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘confer a benefice upon’): from Latin collat- ‘brought together’, from the verb conferre, from con- ‘together’ + ferre ‘bring’.