Accumulate vs Collate - What's the difference?
accumulate | collate |
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
* Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates , and men decay. -
(poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.
To examine diverse documents et cetera to discover similarities and differences.
* Coleridge
To assemble something in a logical sequence.
* 1922 , , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 101
To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.
(obsolete) To bestow or confer.
(Christianity) To admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to .
In transitive terms the difference between accumulate and collate
is that accumulate is to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass while collate is to sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.As an adjective accumulate
is collected; accumulated.accumulate
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Verb
(accumulat)- He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
Synonyms
* collect * pile up * store * amass * gather * aggregate * heap together * hoard * proliferateAdjective
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* * ----collate
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Verb
(collat)- The young attorneys were set the task of collating the contract submitted by the other side with the previous copy.
- I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew.
- Detest your own age. Build a better one. And to set that on foot read incredibly dull essays upon Marlowe to your friends. For which purpose one must collate editions in the British Museum.
- Collating was still necessary because they had to insert foldout sheets and index tabs into the documents.
- (Jeremy Taylor)