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Definition: Collate |
CollateVerb1. 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) |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| COL | English | Collation Please/I collate | Computing, Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: CollateSynonym: collect (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Collate |
| English words defined with "collate": Collated, Collating. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "collate": co-location, COUNTER, HAND ♦ Perl profiler. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "collate": Accouchement. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 75.44% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 17.54% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.02% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "collate": collate with. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
collate | 35 |
collate cp lc msvcrt.dll | 6 |
lc collate cp | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | 对 (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 conferir (accord, accredit, bestow, check, check over, compare, confer, grant, supervise, verify). (various references) confrunta (compare, confront, contrast), colaţiona, alãtura (adjoin, annex, approach, compare, confront, enclose, join, juxtapose). (various references) 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) srediti (arrange, compose, put in order), sravniti (level, rase, raze, strickle). (various references) cotejar (compare, liken). (various references) kollationera, jämföra (compare, comparing, contrast). (various references) 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) порівнювати (balance, compare, confront, contrast, weigh), детально звіряти. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "collate" (pronounced kulā"t) |
| 4 | -u l ā" t | demodulate, elate, interrelate, relate. |
| 3 | -l ā" t | conflate, deflate, dilate, inflate, late, oblate, plate, reflate, slate, translate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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