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decollate

PRONUNCIATION:

(for 1: dee-KAH-layt, for 2: DEK-uh-layt) 

MEANING:

1. To behead.
2. To separate sheets of paper, from a multiple-copy printout, for example.

ETYMOLOGY:

For 1: From Latin decollare, from de- (from) + collum (neck). Earliest documented use: 1599.
For 2: From de- (from) + collate (to gather, merge, etc.), from conferre (to bring together). Earliest documented use: 1967.

NOTES:

Sometimes the word decollate is used as an alternate spelling for the decollete (which is a short for decolletage: a low neckline on a woman’s dress). If your name is Chasity and you’re writing a romance novel (The Other Wife), any spelling is fine. But when you need to refer to a low neckline in a formal context -- an office memo, a research paper, a court brief, a patent application, etc. -- it’s best to go with decollete.

USAGE:

“But supple loops of the Grene’s tail whipped around the neck of the silver behemoth as if to decollate.”
R. Dennis Baird; Talon of Light; AuthorHouse; 2004.

“These printouts were then manually decollated, bursted, sorted, folded, and inserted into envelopes.”
Subashini Selvaratnam; Boosting Operational Efficiency; New Straits Times (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia); Sep 26, 2005.

“The decollate was quite revealing but not unseemly. I didn’t do it for him. Even telling herself that, it rang false.”
Chasity Bowlin; The Other Wife; Amazon; 2021.

See more usage examples of decollate in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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When you turn the corner / And you run into yourself / Then you know that you have turned / All the corners that are left. -Langston Hughes, poet and novelist (1 Feb 1902-1967)

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 A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

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PROJECT STATUS 

• Traffic on Dunlap Avenue will shift in December 2022 for track and roadway installation at 25th and Dunlap avenues. Traffic will remain restricted to one lane in each direction outside of the future light rail guideway (where the train tracks are located). 

• Utility relocations in the project corridor will be completed by January 2023. • Trackwork and station construction will continue through spring 2023. 

• Bridge construction on 25th Avenue over the Arizona Canal and Diversion Channel is complete; 25th Avenue road, rail and station work will continue through spring 2023. 

• Interstate 17 light rail bridges work, which includes track and station infrastructure, will continue through 2023. 

• Coordination and collaboration continues with local area community groups, business owners and residents. 

NEXT STEPS 

• Overhead Catenary System (OCS) poles and wiring construction will continue through spring 2023. 

• Trackwork is estimated to be completed in February 2023. 

• Station construction is estimated to be completed in spring 2023. 

• Construction of the light rail bridges over I-17 will continue into 2023. Expect overnight freeway restrictions in this area through spring 2023. No additional full freeway closures are expected

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