Collate vs Bump - What's the difference?
collate | bump |
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 .
A light blow or jolting collision.
The sound of such a collision.
A protuberance on a level surface.
A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
* Shakespeare
One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind.
(rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
(Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
(slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
A coarse cotton fabric.
A training match for a fighting dog.
To knock against or run into with a jolt.
To move up or down by a step.
(Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
(chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
* 1916 , Albert Prescott Mathews, Physiological chemistry
To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
* 2005 , Lois Jones, EasyJet: the story of Britain's biggest low-cost airline (page 192)
To move the time of a scheduled event.
* 2010 , Nancy Conner, Matthew MacDonald, Office 2010: The Missing Manual , p. 332:
(archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
* Dryden
As a verb collate
is to examine diverse documents et cetera to discover similarities and differences.As a proper noun bump is
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English
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)
bump
English
Noun
(en noun)- It had upon its brow / A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone.
- the bump''' of veneration; the '''bump of acquisitiveness
- US presidential nominees get a post-convention bump in survey ratings.
Derived terms
* bump and grind * bump in the road * bumpity * bumpy * fist bump * razor bump * speed bump * things that go bump in the nightVerb
- I bumped the font size up to make my document easier to read.
- Heat until the liquid bumps , then reduce the heat and continue the boiling for 1½ hours.
- Easyjet said the compensation package for passengers bumped off flights was 'probably the most flawed piece of European legislation in recent years'...
- A colleague emails with news that her 4:30 meeting got bumped to 3:30.
- as a bittern bumps within a reed