Collate vs Curate - What's the difference?
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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 act as a curator for.
To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
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To work or act as a curator.
In transitive terms the difference between collate and curate
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 curate is to apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.As a noun curate is
an assistant rector or vicar.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)
curate
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(curat)- She curated the traveling exhibition.
- They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.
- Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.