0 past simple and past participle of collate
1 to bring together different pieces of written information so that the similarities and differences can be seen:
The photocopier will collate the documents for you.
to collate data/information
At first, this knowledge was not collected, collated, and systematized.
The data were collated in terms of critical incidences of instruction and analyzed for their significance and effects on linguistic and pedagogical processes.
Ten other copies are known and have been collated here.
Portions of the original data were abstracted from the final total of 17 hours of videotape and collated onto one single edited videotape.
The findings were collated to determine if there was a common supply of implicated foods.
First, data on user characteristics were collated in respect of physical dependency and evidence of different problems relating to mental health in old age.
Finally, service use and costs of illness were collated for the 6-month period prior to the interview.
Collated over the causal terms, 26 % of the skilled group's responses and 34% of the less-skilled group's responses were judged not to make sense.