What is the meaning of Collate?

To examine diverse documents and so on, to discover similarities and differences.

To assemble something in a logical sequence.

To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.

To bestow or confer.

To admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to.

vocative masculine singular of collātus

Source: wiktionary.org