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sort

(sôrt)

1. A group of persons or things of the same general character; a kind. See Usage Note at kind².

2. Character or nature: books of a subversive sort.

3. One that exemplifies the characteristics of or serves a similar function to another: "A large dinner-party ... made a sort of general introduction for her to the society of the neighbourhood" (George Eliot).

4. A person; an individual: The clerk is a decent sort.

5. Computers An operation that arranges data in a specified way: did an alphabetic sort on the columns of data.

6. Archaic A way of acting or behaving: "in this sort the simple household lived / From day to day" (William Wordsworth).

v. sort·ed, sort·ing, sorts

v.tr.

1. To place or arrange according to class, kind, or size; classify: sorted the books into boxes by genre. See Synonyms at arrange.

2. To separate from others: sort the wheat from the chaff.

v.intr.

1. To make a search or examination of a collection of things: sorted through the laundry looking for a matching sock.

2. To be or become arranged in a certain way.

Phrasal Verb:

sort out

1. To separate from others: sorted out the books to be donated to the library.

2. To clarify or resolve: She tried to sort out her problems.

3. To bring or restore to health or good condition: A good night's sleep will sort you out.

4. To reprimand or punish (someone) for a mistake or offense.

Idioms:

after a sort

In a haphazard or imperfect way: managed to paint the chair after a sort.

of sorts/a sort

1. Of a mediocre or inferior kind: a constitutional government of a sort.

2. Of one kind or another: knew many folktales of sorts.

out of sorts

1. Slightly ill.

2. Irritable; cross: The teacher is out of sorts this morning.

sort of Informal

Somewhat; rather: "Gambling and prostitution ... have been prohibited, but only sort of" (George F. Will).

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sors, sort-, lot; see ser- in Indo-European roots.]

sort′a·ble adj.

sort′er n.

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sorting

(ˈsɔːtɪŋ)

the process or operation of ordering items and data according to specific criteria(as modifier)

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sorting

In counterdrug operations, the process involved in differentiating traffic that could be involved in drug trafficking from legitimate air traffic. Initial sorting criteria are established jointly by the US Coast Guard and US Customs Service, coordinated with Department of Defense counterparts, and disseminated as required. See also counterdrug operations.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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Noun	1.	sorting - an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting" sort operation - (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction); "it can perform millions of operations per second"
	2.	sorting - the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories categorisation, categorization, classification coordination - being of coordinate importance, rank, or degree basic cognitive process - cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge appraisal, assessment - the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth ascription, attribution - assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso" ascription, attribution - assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned" cross-classification, cross-division - classification according to more than one attribute at the same time; "the cross-classification of cases was done by age and sex" subsumption - incorporating something under a more general category
	3.	sorting - grouping by class or kind or size grouping - the activity of putting things together in groups triage - sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food separation - sorting one thing from others; "the separation of wheat from chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal zones"

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ταξινόμηση

classificazione

sorting

[ˈsɔːtɪŋ]

A. N → clasificación f (Comput) → ordenación f

B. CPD sorting office N (Post) → sala f de batalla

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