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Collate vs Percolate - What's the difference?

collate | percolate |

In transitive terms the difference between collate and percolate

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 percolate is to make (coffee) in a percolator.

As a noun percolate is

a liquid that has been percolated.

collate

English

Verb

(collat)
  • To examine diverse documents et cetera to discover similarities and differences.
  • The young attorneys were set the task of collating the contract submitted by the other side with the previous copy.
  • * Coleridge
  • I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew.
  • To assemble something in a logical sequence.
  • * 1922 , , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 101
  • 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.
  • To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.
  • Collating was still necessary because they had to insert foldout sheets and index tabs into the documents.
  • (obsolete) To bestow or confer.
  • (Jeremy Taylor)
  • (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 .
  • percolate

    English

    Verb

  • To pass a liquid through a porous substance; to filter.
  • To drain or seep through a porous substance.
  • Water percolates through sand.
  • To make (coffee) in a percolator.
  • I'll percolate some coffee.
  • (figuratively) To spread slowly or gradually; to slowly become noticed or realised.
  • Reports on the pitiful state of many prisons have finally percolated through to the Home Office, which has promised to look into the situation.
    Through media reports it percolated to the surface that the police investigation was profoundly flawed.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A liquid that has been percolated.