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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sort \Sort\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sorted}; p. pr & vb n. {Sorting}.] 1. To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness. Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another. --Sir I. Newton. 2. To reduce to order from a confused state. --Hooker. 3. To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. Shellfish have been by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects. --Bacon. She sorts things present with things past. --Sir J. Davies. 4. To choose from a number; to select; to cull. That he may sort out a worthy spouse. --Chapman. I'll sort some other time to visit you --Shak. 5. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. [R.] I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sorting n 1: an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery it the process of sorting" [syn: {sort}] 2: the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories [syn: {classification}, {categorization}] 3: grouping by class or kind or size From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: sorting See {sort}.
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