What's the difference between collate and confront?

Collate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement.
  • (v. t.) To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.
  • (v. t.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.
  • (v. t.) To bestow or confer.
  • (v. i.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By collating the results of those tests with the results of tests on previously collected samples, we have been able to discuss and observe age and sex susceptibilities and the mode of transmission of the naturally occurring disease.
  • (2) • The International Medical Corps is recruiting qualified healthcare practitioners, water, sanitation and environmental experts, psychosocial staff and logistics, human resources and finance professionals to work in Ebola treatment units in Sierra Leone and Liberia How to donate to aid agencies and organisations tackling Ebola USAid has collated a list of NGOs responding to Ebola .
  • (3) Subjects' responses were directly collated with those of their friends and indicated a clear covariation of smoking status (controlling for sex and age) as anticipated from previous research in which adolescents have been asked to report on the smoking habits of their friends.
  • (4) The review also draws on data on maternal deaths, collated on a triennial basis and published by the National Health and Medical Research Council.
  • (5) The Hunt file: doctors' dossier of patients 'put at risk' by health secretary Read more Hunt is under fire from doctors in a campaign that collates examples of such patients to illustrate what they call “the Hunt effect”.
  • (6) According to data from the Labour government's 2005 Count Me In census, which for the first time collated statistics on ethnic minorities in mental health services, black men and mixed race men are three or more times more likely than the general population to be admitted to a psychiatric unit.
  • (7) We have collated phenotypic and genotypic data on 1622 members of 128 families with tuberous sclerosis in order to evaluate simultaneously the evidence for these putative loci.
  • (8) scores are markedly lower than the passenger satisfaction results collated by the watchdog Passenger Focus from a far bigger sample.
  • (9) Scientists from Global Forest Watch collated 400,000 images of the Earth’s surface to map the world’s forests down to a resolution of 30 metres.
  • (10) The paper analyzes a province-wide database that collates statistical data from all inpatient and outpatient psychiatric services as well as from private physicians.
  • (11) This review collates the dietary, toxicological, immunological and chemical data available and presents the pre-requisite data concerning the 'Need' and low levels of utilization of GT.
  • (12) Labor knows from experience that inevitably some of their own side will also have erred, and that Coalition researchers will be, as we speak, collating any evidence of such cases.
  • (13) The responses were collated and compared by sex, age, size of burn, and evaluator (patient, parent, or physician).
  • (14) Responsibilities of the coordinating center have changed from a conventional coordinating center but remain substantial due to the need for collating, monitoring, verifying, and documenting the distributed data analysis (DDA) system.
  • (15) The authors believe that a collation of the tabulated data with the known mathematical models makes it possible to come to understanding some aspects of the pathogenesis of endogenic psychoses.
  • (16) Data from several studies on urinary nicotine concentrations and those of cotinine in blood, urine and saliva were collated.
  • (17) It emerged during the month-long trial that he had a collection of images of girls being abused and had collated pictures of April and her sisters from Facebook.
  • (18) The Knowledge Bank has collated open access information from all over the world, and also includes in-house data that Cabi has made freely available for the first time.
  • (19) Reports of single base-pair mutations within gene coding regions causing human genetic disease were collated.
  • (20) When our results are collated and correlated with new somatosensory cortical maps arrived at by microelectrode techniques (Pubols et al.

Confront


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness.
  • (v. t.) To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.
  • (v. t.) To set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (2) Regulators concerned about physician behavior and confronted by demands of nonphysicians to prescribe controlled substances may find EDT a good solution.
  • (3) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.
  • (4) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
  • (5) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
  • (6) The protesters were confronted by a much larger group of pro-Kremlin activists, which led to scuffles.
  • (7) This is especially the case when it is confronted with regimes such as those of Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin that feel no compunction over a scorched-earth response to insurgency and do so with calculation.
  • (8) He said: "Advanced economies are still confronted with high levels of public and private debt, which act as brakes on the recovery.
  • (9) The Morgan family said the terms of reference for the inquiry panel included: • Police involvement in the murder • The role played by police corruption in protecting those responsible for the murder from being brought to justice and the failure to confront that corruption • The incidence of connections between private investigators, police officers and journalists at the News of the World and other parts of the media and corruption involved in the linkages between them.
  • (10) "The development control committee is frequently confronted with applications where developers have submitted viability assessment that show a development is only viable if affordable housing is greatly reduced often to a level of less than 20%," Hopkins said.
  • (11) The walk-out is by far the most serious confrontation with the government since the elevation of the conservative-led, three-party coalition to power in June – and, says unionists, underlines the scale of public anger over cuts that are widely seen to be unfair.
  • (12) He confronted the conventional wisdom that time is on our side and the status quo is working in our favour.
  • (13) Because many of these issues are unresolved, it is important for health professionals to be aware of current professional standards and guidelines, as well as to consult with the hospital's attorney or risk manager when confronted with a legal or ethical dilemma.
  • (14) The government needs to show the resolve to confront paramilitary criminality in our society and remove it, once and for all,” he said.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump ‘sways malevolently’ behind Hillary Clinton Instead, he began the night by assembling a group of women in a press conference to revisit alleged sexual assaults by Bill Clinton, before confronting his opponent hardest on her private email server.
  • (16) Patient education and confrontation regarding noncompliance did not reduce major asthma episodes.
  • (17) Given the increasing incidence of AIDS and the frequency of haematological abnormalities in this condition, the practising clinician should have a high index of suspicion when confronted by any unexplained haematological abnormality.
  • (18) A photograph of her confronting a row of police officers, a handbag dangling from her arm, became one of the iconic images of the 1970s.
  • (19) When confronted with a case of dyspnoea, three questions must be asked: is the dyspnoea due to a pulmonary organic disease?
  • (20) It is hypothesized that more understanding and progress may come from an insightful review of the historical development of Canadian Mental Health Services and the goals of organized Psychiatry in Canada than will result from developing a defensive and confrontational attitude towards current events in the field.