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Thesaurus vs Collate - What's the difference?

thesaurus | collate |

As a noun thesaurus

is thesaurus.

As a verb collate is

to examine diverse documents et cetera to discover similarities and differences.

thesaurus

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language.
  • "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus'' that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.
  • (archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
  • (information science) A hierarchy of subject headings—canonic titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
  • Synonyms

    * synonymicon

    Derived terms

    * thesaural

    See also

    * ontology * *

    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 .