curate

plural curates

1. An assistant rector or vicar.
2. A parish priest.
3. IrelandAn assistant barman.

   ‘Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.’ The curate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed. He put his penny on the counter and, leaving the curate to grope for it in the gloom, retreated out of the snug as furtively as he had entered it.

   1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Counterparts”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 107

present singular third person curates · participle present curating · participle past curated · past curated

1. transitiveTo act as a curator for.

   She curated the traveling exhibition.

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   They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.

2. broadlytransitiveTo apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.

   What I love about DVRs is that they really allow you to curate your experience of television.

   2007 May 16, “TV Networks Woo Advertisers with Fall Line-Up”, in NPR_TalkNation

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   During the past five years I had the good fortune to be editor of Poetry Northwest. The magazine's mission includes curating a dialogue between poetry, the other arts, and civic life.

   2010 May, David Biespiel, “This Land Is Our Land”, in Poetry, volume 196, number 2, pages 151–158

   To grasp how this all works, think of the concepts of editing and curating, adopted from publishing and art but now used constantly in the fashion world to imply judgment, taste and discernment.

   2010 November 28, Laura Compton, “Shopping sites redefine fashion”, in San Francisco Chronicle, Style, page G1

   From there, click the Notifications tab and scroll down to Groups. This will bring up a page that allows you to curate what sort of Group-related activity results in e-mail alerts.

   2011 February, Seth Porges, “Digital Clinic”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 188, number 2, page 105

   Sometimes, you just want to shop for the pure joy of looking at cool things. And the app for Fab, a curated shopping site, is just the place to do that.

   2012 June 10, “TechBits: Fab lets you shop, if not sort”, in Washington Post

   The line between reporter and reader will blur as a growing number of people create, curate, and circulate content.

   2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 3, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN

3. intransitiveTo work or act as a curator.

   Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.

plural curates

1. chemistryAn oxyanion of curium; any salt containing such an anion.