Collate vs Merge - What's the difference?
collate | merge |
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 .
To combine into a whole.
* Burke
* De Quincey
To combine into a whole.
To blend gradually into something else.
In transitive terms the difference between collate and merge
is that collate is to sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding while merge is to combine into a whole.As a noun merge is
a joining together of two flows.collate
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)
merge
English
Verb
(merg)- Headquarters merged the operations of the three divisions.
- to merge all natural sentiment in inordinate vanity
- Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots.
- The two companies merged .
- The lanes of traffic ''merged''.
