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Collate

Definition: Collate

Collate

Verb

1. Compare critically; of texts.

2. To assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "collate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)


Abbreviations & Acronyms: Collate

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
COLEnglishCollation Please/I collateComputing, Post & Telecom

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Collate

Synonym: collect (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Collate

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Comparison

Verb: compare to, compare with; collate, confront; place side by side, juxtapose; (near); set against one another, pit against one another; contrast, balance.

Continuity

Arrange in a series, collate; Noun: string together, file, thread, graduate, organize, sort, tabulate.

List

Verb: list, itemize; sort, collate; enumerate, tabulate, catalog, tally.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Collate

English words defined with "collate": Collated, Collating. (references)
Specialty definitions using "collate": co-location, COUNTER, HANDPerl profiler. (references)
Etymologies containing "collate": Accouchement. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Collate

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Ghana

The National Taskforce on Monitoring Private Capital Flow, has been established to collate information from the various agencies. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Collate

"Collate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.44% of the time. "Collate" is used about 57 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)75.44%4352,181
Lexical Verb (base form)17.54%10111,207
Noun (singular)7.02%4175,879
                    Total100.00%57N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Collate

Expression using "collate": collate with. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Collate

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

collate

35

collate cp lc msvcrt.dll

6

lc collate cp

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Collate

Language Translations for "collate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

sistemoj (dispose, house, organize, place, regulate, settle, shelve, systematize), mbledh (accumulate, add, add together, assemble, bank, brush up, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collect, compile, compress, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, dredge, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, gather, get together, group, herd, impound, kilt, levy, lift, make up, pack, pick, pick off, pick up, pool, rally, reap, round up, scoop up, shut, sweep, take, total, totalize), krahasoj imtësisht. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فحص كتاب, ‏منحه رتبة كنيسة ذات دخل, ‏قارن بين النصوص, ‏وازن (balance, balancing, compare, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equate, equilibrate, equipoise, even, offset, poise, set off, square, stabilize, strike a balance). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съпоставям (juxtapose, put together), сравнявам (compare, confront, contrast, liken, parallel, put together), сверявам подробно. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(Collated, Collating, proofread). (various references)

   

Czech

  

porovnat (contrast). (various references)

   

Danish

  

sammenligne tekster (compare), sammenligne kopi med original (compare), samle ark til en bog (gather), kollationere (collating, compare, gather). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

collationneren (compare), vergelijken (compare), vergaren (gather). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مقابله وتطبیق کردن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kollationoida. (various references)

   

French

  

collationner (compare). (various references)

   

German

  

vergleichen (compare, liken, to collate), zusammentragen (carry together, collation, collect, collect together, compile, gather, to carry together), kollationieren (compare, gather). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παραβάλλω (compare). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

egyeztet (coordinate, cross-check, to agree, to check, to collate, to conciliate, to harmonize, to tally), összehasonlít (compare, liken, to bracket, to check, to collate, to compare, to confront, to contrast, to liken, to match). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menyatukan (bunch, consoin, unify). (various references)

   

Italian

  

confrontare (balance, compare, confornt, confront, contrast, match). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

読み合せる (to read out and compare or collate), 読み合わせる (to read out and compare or collate). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

よみあわせる (to read out and compare or collate). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

대조하십시". (various references)

   

Manx

  

cur ayns oardrailys (collation). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ollatecay

   

Portuguese

  

conferir (accord, accredit, bestow, check, check over, compare, confer, grant, supervise, verify). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

confrunta (compare, confront, contrast), colaţiona, alãtura (adjoin, annex, approach, compare, confront, enclose, join, juxtapose). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сравнивать (bring into comparison, compare, compared, draw an analogy, make comparisons, match, take comparison), сверять, сличать (compare), объединять (aggregate, band, combine, combining, consolidate, desegregate, merged, unify, unionize, unite, unites, whip in). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

srediti (arrange, compose, put in order), sravniti (level, rase, raze, strickle). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cotejar (compare, liken). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kollationera, jämföra (compare, comparing, contrast). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sıralamak (align, Aline, arrange, array, collocate, compile, concatenate, juxtapose, line up, Marshal, put in order, range, string), karşılaştırmak (balance, check, check against, class with, compare, confront, confront smb. with, contrast, crosscheck, match, parallel, set against), karşılaştırarak okumak. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

порівнювати (balance, compare, confront, contrast, weigh), детально звіряти. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Collate

Derivations

Words beginning with "collate": collated, collateral, collateralities, collaterality, collateralize, collateralized, collateralizes, collateralizing, collaterally, collaterals, collates. (additional references)

Words ending with "collate": decollate. (additional references)

Words containing "collate": decollated, decollates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Collate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acolate, calaste, Calata, Callata, callate, callitee, Callixte, callote, celate, cellae, Cellata, celtae, Clonatec, coalate, coallate, coelute, Coillach, colade, colate, colelate, Coleta, collachs, collant, collare, colleae, collett, Colte, Colutea, Colyte, corlate, culate, Follette, Kollatr, Vollrath. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Collate"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "collate" (pronounced kulā"t)
4-u l ā" tdemodulate, elate, interrelate, relate.
3-l ā" tconflate, deflate, dilate, inflate, late, oblate, plate, reflate, slate, translate.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Collate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-l-o-t"

-1 letter: callet, collet, locale, locate.

-2 letters: allot, atoll, cella, cello, cleat, eclat, local, octal.

-3 letters: alec, aloe, alto, call, calo, cate, cell, celt, clot, coal, coat, cola, cole, colt, cote, lace, late, leal, loca, lota, olea, olla, tace, taco, tael, talc, tale, tall, teal, tela, tell, toea, tola, tole, toll.

-4 letters: ace, act, ale, all.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-l-o-t"
 

+1 letter: allocate, collaret, collated, collates, localite, loculate, ocellate, teocalli.

 

+2 letters: allocated, allocates, callowest, collarets, colligate, collimate, collocate, corollate, decollate, electoral, localites, locatable, oscillate, teocallis.

 

+3 letters: allometric, allosteric, blastocoel, brocatelle, citronella, collateral, collegiate, colligated, colligates, collimated, collimates, collocated, collocates, colorectal, covalently, decollated, decollates, erotically, eucalyptol, exotically, flocculate, idiolectal, interlocal, lanceolate, leucoplast, localities, oscillated, oscillates, poetically, reallocate, sclerotial, societally, tablecloth, vorticella.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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