curate

noun

1. An assistant rector or vicar.
2. A parish priest.
3. (Ireland)An 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.”

4. An oxyanion of curium; any salt containing such an anion.

verb

1. (transitive)To act as a curator for.

   “She curated the traveling exhibition.”

   “They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.”

2. (broadly, transitive)To 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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

3. (intransitive)To work or act as a curator.

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