Sorting

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of separating into sorts.
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  • verb. Present participle of sort.
  • noun. ordering
  • noun. categorizing
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
  • noun. grouping by class or kind or size
  • noun. the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
  • Word Usage
    "They know who the socks belong to so they can help in sorting the washing."
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