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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.
A person is diffuse when they write or speak at length.
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 is especially used when someone was not always able to do this because of illness or confusion.
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
kol-AYT
Context
Rhonda used a careful system of organizing and collating for 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 desired that all her information be logically collated so that she could compare, contrast, and examine all of her data. Her coworkers were amazed at her precise collation and ordering of information, and 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.
Arrange it into different topics or categories to help you make sense of it.
Try to find a variety of sources that provide useful and interesting information.
When you collate pieces of information, you gather them all together and arrange them in some sensible order in order to 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
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.
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The Washington Post
The employer can collate evidence as to what attitude or treatment it would have given to an actual or hypothetical employee in relevant circumstances similar to those of the aggrieved employee.
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BNET
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
Insisting that the department was not 'coveringup', a spokesman added that it was hoping to collate and publish greater detail of serious injuries by the end of the week.
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BNET
To collate is to “carry or bring” information “together” in a clear and logical fashion, either physically or mentally.
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