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Collated vs Collected - What's the difference?

collated | collected |

As verbs the difference between collated and collected

is that collated is (collate) while collected is (collect).

As an adjective collected is

, emotionally , in focus.

collated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (collate)

    • 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 .

    • Related terms

    * collation * collator * decollate * decollator

    collected

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • , emotionally , in focus.
    • He stayed collected throughout the ordeal.
  • *

    • Synonyms

    * calm, cool, composed

    Verb

    (head)
  • (collect)
  • *
    • Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.