What's the difference between collate and sort?

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.

Sort


Definition:

  • (n.) Chance; lot; destiny.
  • (n.) A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.
  • (n.) Manner; form of being or acting.
  • (n.) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
  • (n.) A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
  • (n.) A pair; a set; a suit.
  • (n.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
  • (v. t.) To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.
  • (v. t.) To reduce to order from a confused state.
  • (v. t.) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
  • (v. t.) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
  • (v. t.) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
  • (v. i.) To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
  • (v. i.) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Translation: 'We do less, you get yourself sorted.'"
  • (2) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
  • (3) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
  • (4) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
  • (5) After induction the aIL2r positive and negative cell subpopulations were sorted and analyzed separately for morphology, lineage specific cell surface markers, and clonogenic cell numbers.
  • (6) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
  • (7) Luminal and myoepithelial cells have been separated from normal adult human breast epithelium using fluorescence activated cell sorting.
  • (8) Those sort of year-to-year comparisons can be helpful to visualise changes in the market landscape, but in fast-changing markets it's not enough just to quote a single number.
  • (9) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (10) But under Comey’s FBI, the agency has continued to disregard the justice department’s legal opinion, and to this day, demands tech companies hand it all sorts of data under due-process free National Security Letters.
  • (11) By mixing old and young slg- BM cells, we found that, in general, this reduction was not caused by a suppressive effect of T cells or of any other cells, but rather to lack of some sort of supportive cell or factor in the aged BM.
  • (12) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
  • (13) On the other hand, unsorted cells and non-CD3+Leu7+ sorted cells either enhance responses or produce less than 10% suppression under the same conditions.
  • (14) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.
  • (15) These results suggest that besides the maternal leucocytes, sufficient trophoblast nucleated fetal cells can be obtained using cell enrichment by sorting.
  • (16) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
  • (17) How often do we use the term depressed to mean disappointed, mildly bummed out or sort of blue?
  • (18) "The sort of people they do business with do not want their deals in the spotlight."
  • (19) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (20) I’m perfectly aware of the import of your question, and what we have done, very firmly for all sorts of good reasons, since September 2013, is not comment on operational matters because every time we comment on operational matters we give information to our enemies,” he said.