collator
Britishnoun
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a person or machine that collates texts or manuscripts
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computing a device for matching or checking punched cards in separate files and for merging two or more files sorted into the same ordered sequence
Example Sentences
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As the collator of all this material, Solomon makes his own emotional and intellectual growth one of the book’s themes, as he describes how his subjects helped him shed the blinders he once wore.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2019
If the collator put the query directly into the piece, or if the editor tried to make a fix without being sure what the author meant, there was a danger of corrupting the text.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
“There’s been some shift,” says Molly Malloy, the collator and curator of the most extensive archive of these events in Juárez, and the librarian at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, just across the border.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2015
Two Folios would be put in the collator, and through cleverly arranged mirrors, their images would be overlaid in a binocular viewer, making clear the textual and typographical variations in nearly every copy.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2011
There is no trace of it before the sixteenth century, beyond the fact that its first collator was Modius of Cologne, who was allowed to use the Cathedral library, to which the Cicero then belonged.
From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone
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