noun
Meaning 1
verbal noun of sort:
Ordering.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sorting
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Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
verbal noun of sort:
Categorizing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
verbal noun of sort:
Mending.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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verb
Meaning 4
present participle and gerund of sort
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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noun
Meaning 5
grouping by class or kind or size
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: grouping
Narrower terms: triage, separation
noun
Meaning 6
the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: classification, categorization, categorisation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: basic cognitive process
Narrower terms: coordination, appraisal, assessment, attribution, ascription, cross-classification, cross-division, subsumption
noun
Meaning 7
an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sort
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: operation
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: çeşidlənmə — ordering
- Belarusian: сартава́нне (sartavánnje) — ordering
- Bulgarian: подреждане (podreždane) — ordering
- Bulgarian: сортиране (sortirane) — ordering
- Czech: třídění — ordering
- Danish: sortering — ordering
- Finnish: lajittelu — ordering
- Macedonian: подредување (podreduvanje) — ordering
- Polish: sortowanie — ordering
- Russian: сортиро́вка (sortiróvka) — ordering
- Spanish: acotejo — ordering
- Spanish: compaginación — ordering
- Swedish: sortering — ordering
- Ukrainian: сортува́ння (sortuvánnja) — ordering
- Azerbaijani: çeşidlənmə — categorizing
- Belarusian: сартава́нне (sartavánnje) — categorizing
- Bulgarian: категоризиране (kategorizirane) — categorizing
- Bulgarian: категоризация (kategorizacija) — categorizing
- Czech: kategorizace — categorizing
- Czech: třídění — categorizing
- Danish: sortering — categorizing
- Finnish: lajitteleminen — categorizing
- Greek: διαλογή (dialogí) — categorizing
- Japanese: 選別 (senbetsu) — categorizing
- Macedonian: сортирање (sortiranje) — categorizing
- Polish: sortowanie — categorizing
- Russian: сортиро́вка (sortiróvka) — categorizing
- Spanish: categorización — categorizing
- Spanish: clasificación — categorizing
- Swedish: sortering — categorizing
- Ukrainian: сортува́ння (sortuvánnja) — categorizing
Real reading context