different between decollate vs collate

English

Etymology 1

From Latin decollare (“to behead”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: d?-k?l??t, d?k??-l?t, IPA^(key): /d??k?le?t/, /?d?k?le?t/

Verb

decollate (third-person singular simple present decollates, present participle decollating, simple past and past participle decollated)

1. (transitive) To behead.

Translations

Etymology 2

de- +? collate

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: d?-k?-l?t?, d?k??-l?t, IPA^(key): /di?k??le?t/, /?d?k?le?t/

Verb

decollate (third-person singular simple present decollates, present participle decollating, simple past and past participle decollated)

1. (transitive, computing) To separate the copies of multipart computer printout.

Anagrams

• ocellated

Italian

Verb

decollate

1. second-person plural present of decollare
2. second-person plural imperative of decollare

Latin

Verb

d?coll?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?coll?

English

Etymology

From Latin coll?tum, past participle of c?nfer?. Not related to collateral.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??le?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ko?.le?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Hyphenation: col?late

Verb

collate (third-person singular simple present collates, present participle collating, simple past and past participle collated)

1. (transitive) To examine diverse documents and so on, to discover similarities and differences.
   • c. 1831, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on the Book of Common Prayer

     I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew.

2. (transitive) To assemble something in a logical sequence.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, 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.

3. (transitive) To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.

4. (obsolete) To bestow or confer.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jeremy Taylor to this entry?)

5. (transitive, 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. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Related terms

Translations

Latin

Participle

coll?te

1. vocative masculine singular of coll?tus