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Accretion is the slow, gradual process by which new things are added and something gets bigger.
To agglomerate a group of things is to gather them together without any noticeable order.
An aggregate is the final or sum total after many different amounts or scores have been added together.
When two or more things, such as organizations, amalgamate, they combine to become one large thing.
Something that is amorphous has no clear shape, boundaries, or structure.
If you describe a system or process as byzantine, it means that you are criticizing it because it is excessively complicated and difficult to understand.
If two or more things coalesce, they come together to form a single larger unit.
A compendium is a detailed collection of information on a particular or specific subject, usually in a book.
Contiguous things are in contact with or near each other; contiguous events happen one right after the other without a break.
If you cull items or information, you gather them from a number of different places in a selective manner.
Something that is desultory is done in a way that is unplanned, disorganized, and without direction.
When something is diffuse, it is widely spread out and scattered.
To disseminate something, such as knowledge or information, is to distribute it so that it reaches a lot of people.
Entropy is the lack of organization or measure of disorder currently in a system.
If an idea, plan, or attitude is inchoate, it is vague and imperfectly formed because it is just starting to develop.
The juxtaposition of two objects is the act of positioning them side by side so that the differences between them are more readily visible.
If you describe a situation or process as labyrinthine, you mean that it is very complicated, involved, and difficult to understand.
If someone is lucid, they are able to understand things and think clearly; this adjective also describes writing or speech that is crystal clear and easy to understand.
The propinquity of a thing is its nearness in location, relationship, or similarity to another thing.
Serried things or people are crowded together in rows with very little space separating them.
Sporadic occurrences happen from time to time but not at constant or regular intervals.
Something that is vaporous is not completely formed but foggy and misty; in the same vein, a vaporous idea is insubstantial and vague.
Verb
collate
ka-LAYT
Context
Rhonda used a careful system to collate or organize her numerous files. She neatly collated files of personal information by labeling them with color-coded stickers and then placing them in alphabetical order. Rhonda wanted all her information to be logically collated so she could compare, contrast, and examine all her data. Her coworkers were amazed at her ability to precisely collate or order information, so much so that they asked her to design a system for their entire office.
Quiz:Try again!
What would be an effective way to collate research for an essay?
Use only reliable sources that you know have already been fact-checked.
Try to find a variety of sources that provide useful and interesting information.
Arrange it into different topics or categories to help you make sense of it.
When you collate pieces of information, you gather them all together and arrange them in some sensible order so that you can examine and compare those data efficiently.
Collect and LayOut in Order I really need to collate these documents now, so I'll collect them, lay them out in order, and feel much better about the whole thing.
Examples
But from a hiring manager’s perspective, applicant tracking systems are a gift, especially now when recruitment teams themselves are stretched thin and faced with a greater volume of applicants for every open role. At their most basic, they can collate the data from every applicant’s resume and display it in a searchable spreadsheet, allowing a hiring manager to filter applicants based on qualifications or keywords.
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BBC News
Instead of investigating the crimes on a case-by-case basis, British police conducted a methodical investigation beginning with the first evidence. "Before, each packet of evidence was just filed away somewhere. The British came in and said, 'We need to go back to day one, to collate it all, to proceed on this as we would if we were studying multiple homicides'," says Merry.
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The Christian Science Monitor
Another site, openlylocal.com, lists spending information, council meetings and socioeconomic statistics for local authorities up and down the country. TheyWorkForYou.com has spent six years tracking the voting records of every MP in the House of Commons . . . These sites collate publicly available information and present it in a user-friendly way.
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The Economist
Her boss had her make 40 copies of an investment book for prospective clients every week. The books were 60 to 80 pages each. Instead of programming the copy machine to print in groups and collate while she went off to do other work, her boss said she had to copy each book page by page, then collate the pages herself. He told her the machine didn't work.
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The Washington Post
To collate is to “carry or bring” information “together” in a clear and logical fashion, either physically or mentally.
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