1. past tense of collate; gathered and arranged in proper order
2. past tense of collate; compared carefully to note similarities and differences

Examples

• The research assistant collated all the survey responses into a single document.
• She collated the financial reports from each department before the meeting.
• The librarian collated the manuscripts to check for missing pages.
• He collated the test scores and arranged them by student ID number.
• The editor collated different versions of the text to identify discrepancies.
• All the data was collated and presented in chronological order.