MEANING
1. To gather information or material and arrange it systematically.
2. To arrange printed sheets or copies into the correct order.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- collate findings
- collate responses
On the page
The assistant collated responses from all twelve sites.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- collate
- Past tense
- collated
- Past participle
- collated
- Present participle
- collating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- collate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are collating
- Present perfect
- have/has collated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been collating
- Past
- collated
- Past continuous
- was/were collating
- Past perfect
- had collated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been collating
- Future
- will collate
- Future continuous
- will be collating
- Future perfect
- will have collated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been collating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: collate; collates; collated; collated; collating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: collates.
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