Collage vs Collate - What's the difference?
collage | collate |
A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface.
A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc..
* "Richard Brautigan's novel is a collage of memories."
(uncountable) The technique of producing such a work of art that is a collage.
To make into a collage.
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 collage and collate
is that collage is to make into a collage 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 a noun collage
is a picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface.collage
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Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* collage film * collage novel * collagic * collagist * collagisticSee also
* montageVerb
(collag)See also
* (collage) * (commonslite) ----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)