verb
collate
kuh-LAYT/kəˈleɪt/
To gather and arrange items or information in a useful order.
The office worker collates the pages into matching sets.
Etymology
“Carrying together” became bringing items together for comparison. Checking that pages were correctly arranged provides the bridge to the sense of gathering and ordering information.
In context
What has perhaps been lacking is the tools to make it easy for the farmer to share that data and for Government to collate it in a way that allows us to understand what is going on.
More examples
- The assistant collated the pages before binding them.
- Researchers collated information from several archives.
- The software helps collate the survey responses.
Forms
collate · collates · collated · collating