to sort

Definition of to sort in English English dictionary: An act of sorting
I had a sort of my cupboard.; To arrange into some order, especially numerically, alphabetically or chronologically; To separate according to certain criteria; group, company; A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style; To fix a problem, to handle a task; to sort out; {n} a kind, species, rank, lot, company, set; {v} to dispose in classes, adjust, suit, fit; a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?"; To arrange in sequence by type, class, state, value, etc; To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class; For properties of whole feature structures, e g [/sort (phrasal)] Typeset in a bold version of the current font; Sorts an array in place; to sort the wheat from the chaff: see chaff nothing of the sort: see nothing; an approximate definition or example; "she wore a sort of magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert thing" a person of a particular character or nature; "what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort" an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery it the process of sorting; an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery it the process of sorting; an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery it the process of sorting"; To join or associate with others, esp; A process of organizing the records in a database in a specific order, either alphabetically (from A to Z or reverse alphabetically from Z to A) or numerically (from 0 to 9 or reverse numerically from 9 to 0) (DB, Gr 5); (database) to set the logical sequence of a given database file (table) Indexes are often used to maintain such sequences; {f} classify, arrange according to classes or groups; organize; separate from others; clarify; An object-oriented programming language, which laid the groundwork of the paradigm to this day, 'object-oriented' style. To arrange in order Ruby can sort anything, not only array, however complex, if only they're countable (Enumerable is included), and the order is (i e <=> is) defined in each element; A general type; an approximate definition or example; "she wore a sort of magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert thing"; Once the database responds to a query, information can be rearranged through a "sort " A sort can order information by zip code, alphabetically, numerically, by date, etc; Sorting is basically "ordering" records or citations by the contents of a particular field You could sort all the cases in your datafile, for instance, chronologically (this would be a sort on the Year field), or by the primary keyword (this would be a sort on the Keyword field; records or citations would be sorted by the first term in the keyword field; examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"; All sorts of things or people means a large number of different things or people. There are all sorts of animals, including bears, pigs, kangaroos, and penguins Self-help groups of all sorts have been running for more than 20 years; a software feature you use to sort or arrange information in a certain order such as alphabetic or numeric; To choose from a number; to select; to cull; Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered; Sort refers to the function of putting records in a certain order For example, you could sort records alphabetically by last name; with others of the same kind or species; to agree; A person; A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems; sort lines of text files; If you describe something as a thing of sorts or as a thing of a sort, you are suggesting that the thing is of a rather poor quality or standard. He made a living of sorts selling pancakes from a van; A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals; An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular order; a person of a particular character or nature; "what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort"; (External) SORT [/R][/+n] < (filename) SORT [/R][/+n] > (filename2) Sorts input and sends it to the screen or to a file; If you talk about a particular sort of something, you are talking about a class of things that have particular features in common and that belong to a larger group of related things. What sort of school did you go to? There are so many different sorts of mushrooms available these days He had a nice, serious sort of smile That's just the sort of abuse that he will be investigating Eddie was playing a game of some sort = type, kind; To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize; vagueness You use sort of when you want to say that your description of something is not very accurate. You could even order windows from a catalogue -- a sort of mail order stained glass service; Condition above the vulgar; rank; The operation of arranging a set of items according to a key that determines the sequence and precedence of items; To place items in order, often in alphabetical or numeric sequence; To arrange the records in a table based on the values in one or more columns; Manner; form of being or acting; Chance; lot; destiny; To arrange records according to a logical system; To reduce to order from a confused state; A pair; a set; a suit; If you sort things, you separate them into different classes, groups, or places, for example so that you can do different things with them. The students are sorted into three ability groups He unlatched the box and sorted through the papers I sorted the laundry; {i} type, kind; character, manner, quality; You describe someone as a particular sort when you are describing their character. He seemed to be just the right sort for the job She was a very vigorous sort of person What sort of men were they? = type, kind; If you get a problem or the details of something sorted, you do what is necessary to solve the problem or organize the details. I'm trying to get my script sorted = sort out; To arrange data within a database to a predetermined set of criteria; To rearrange rows of data in an order The order can be alphabetical, numerical, or based on a custom list; to arrange items in an order based on a property, like Name or Date modified; To conform; to adapt; to accommodate; The arrangement of items in an order with respect to some variable, but not the variable or the items you originally had in mind A method of scrambling the contents of a disk See Encode and Dump; To arrange data within a spreadsheet to a predetermined set of criteria; To arrange information in an order, such as alphabetic, numeric, size or date order; arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"; An operation that arranges data into a particular sequence; 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; Originally an individual piece of metal type In the world of digital type, where letters have no physical existence until printed, sort has become almost synonymous with character That is, it may refer to the pattern or idea instead of its physical incarnation

to sort

Turkish pronunciation

tı sôrt

Pronunciation

/tə ˈsôrt/ /tə ˈsɔːrt/

Etymology

[ t&, tu, 'tü ] (preposition.) before 12th century. Middle English, from Old English tO; akin to Old High German zuo to, Latin donec as long as, until.

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