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Definition of Collator
1. n. One who collates manuscripts, books, etc.
Definition of Collator
1. Noun. a person who collates ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete computing) a machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards; a program that merges files ¹
3. Noun. a police officer who maintains criminal records and analyzes them for intelligence ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Collator
1. one that collates [n -S] - See also: collates
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collator
Literary usage of Collator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"scientious restorer and collator of original texts. He may have added connecting
links to the arguments of the ancients, and illustrated their obsolete ..."
2. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and (1784)
"... (who had been employed as the collator). his " Dialogues of the Dead,"
written (as he fays) " in In the ..."
3. Annals of Parisian Typography: Containing an Account of the Earliest by William Parr Greswell (1818)
"... being supposed to furnish ample direction to the careful collator or binder.
Louis XI. having thus witnessed the introduction into his own capital of an ..."
4. A Tree with a Bird in it: A Symposium of Contemporary American Poets on by Margaret Widdemer (1922)
"FOREWORD BY THE collator A little while since, I had the fortune to live in a
house, outside of whose windows there grew a pear-tree. ..."
5. A Full and Exact Collation of about Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener (1853)
"1624 a me collator urn. a. Lambeth. 1175. vide supra, рад. b. ib. 1176. c. ib.
1177. d. ib. 1178. XXVI xxvii xxix xxxi e. ib. 1179. f. ib. ..."