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ˈsɔrtɪŋ
WordNet
Book page with a photo of Indian women working in the sorting room of a tea factory in Permanangan. Part of a photo book of the General Association of Rubber Planters on the East Coast of Sumatra (AVROS).
Book page with a photo of Indian women working in the sorting room of a tea factory in Permanangan. Part of a photo book of the General Association of Rubber Planters on the East Coast of Sumatra (AVROS).
  1. (n) sorting
    grouping by class or kind or size
  2. (n) sorting
    the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
  3. (n) sorting
    an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion "the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting"
Illustrations
Book page with a photo of Indian women sorting rubber sheets ('crepe') in a rubber factory of the General Association of Rubber Planters on the East Coast of Sumatra (AVROS) in Naga Timbool. Part of a photo book of the General Association of Rubber Planters on the East Coast of Sumatra (AVROS).
Book page with a photo of Indian women sorting rubber sheets ('crepe') in a rubber factory of the General Association of Rubber Planters on the East Coast of Sumatra (AVROS) in Naga Timbool. Part of a photo book of the General Association of Rubber Planters on the East Coast of Sumatra (AVROS).
Book page with a picture of a tea sorting sieve in a tea factory in Balimbingan. Part of a photo book of the General Association of Rubber Planters on the East Coast of Sumatra (AVROS).
Book page with a picture of a tea sorting sieve in a tea factory in Balimbingan. Part of a photo book of the General Association of Rubber Planters on the East Coast of Sumatra (AVROS).
Titus Manlius Torquatus stands next to a precursor to the guillotine, a sort of hatchet that is operated by a soldier. The son of Titus Manlius is kneeling by the device and has his head pierced through it. The reason for this punishment is depicted in the background, the boy engages in a fight with an enemy against his father's orders.
Titus Manlius Torquatus stands next to a precursor to the guillotine, a sort of hatchet that is operated by a soldier. The son of Titus Manlius is kneeling by the device and has his head pierced through it. The reason for this punishment is depicted in the background, the boy engages in a fight with an enemy against his father's orders.
Two fishermen on the beach. They sort caught fish. Fishing nets are hauled in in the background.
Two fishermen on the beach. They sort caught fish. Fishing nets are hauled in in the background.
Adam is in the foreground. All sorts of animals around him (bull, dog, sheep, snake, hare, pope, parrot). In the background other animals (elephant, lion, unicorn, camel) and birds in the sky. Adam names each of the animals. The first print in a six-part series on the story of Adam and Eve.
Adam is in the foreground. All sorts of animals around him (bull, dog, sheep, snake, hare, pope, parrot). In the background other animals (elephant, lion, unicorn, camel) and birds in the sky. Adam names each of the animals. The first print in a six-part series on the story of Adam and Eve.
Greed tries to catch up with Fortuna. Representation of all sorts of understanding among people from childhood to old age. In the background, a procession of wind traders on foot and in carriages plunges from a cliff into the abyss in pursuit of Fortune. At the top a portrait of John Law with an empty banderole. Without the caption. Print 56 in the series The Great Scene of Folly with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel from 1720.
Greed tries to catch up with Fortuna. Representation of all sorts of understanding among people from childhood to old age. In the background, a procession of wind traders on foot and in carriages plunges from a cliff into the abyss in pursuit of Fortune. At the top a portrait of John Law with an empty banderole. Without the caption. Print 56 in the series The Great Scene of Folly with cartoons on the Windhandel or Actiehandel from 1720.
Bust of admiral Michiel Adriaansz.de Ruyter, in oval. All sorts of banners, cannons and other ship tools around the portrait.
Bust of admiral Michiel Adriaansz.de Ruyter, in oval. All sorts of banners, cannons and other ship tools around the portrait.
The workers are behind the machines. They sort or view the coins produced.
The workers are behind the machines. They sort or view the coins produced.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Have you ever questioned your sanity? You have good reason to. Did you know that one out of every four people has some sort of pychological 'problem'?
  1. (n) sorting
    The act of separating into sorts.
Quotations
Benjamin Franklin
Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Benjamin Franklin
George Eliot
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
George Eliot
Luigi Pirandello
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
Luigi Pirandello
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
Joseph Joubert
Abraham Lincoln
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Abraham Lincoln
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Idioms

Out of sorts - If you are feeling a bit upset and depressed, you are out of sorts.

Usage in the news

It's another fun filled weekend with all sorts of activities and events going on around the area. crz.com

Linnea Casey sorts through mail on Link Avenue in Arbutus on Monday, Oct 29. baltimoresun.com

It sort of jumps off the page. abclocal.go.com

(CBS News) Some days wind up taking on a theme of sorts in terms of the posts here on The Feed. cbsnews.com

"I was sort of upset with the way that I saw boomboxes coming out," said Triest Sunday afternoon at his fraternity house on Kincaid Street. kval.com

Jerry Brown is a student, of sorts, of philosophy. scpr.org

Well, I've sort of had pulpits before. cobar.org

1/3 cup green lentils, sorted and rinsed. latimes.com

In Colorado, there is no compensation and no help of any sort for those who have been wrongly imprisoned. sfgate.com

In other words, sort of like playing a game. nbc33tv.com

The school handbook explicitly states that the staff and teachers will not condone any sort of bullying. kqsfm.com

Franchise conglomerates accumulate franchising chains for all sorts of reasons and in many ways. businessweek.com

It wasn't the same, yet it was, and my memory can't sort the difference. messengernews.net

Most medical parts require some sort of marking. mmsonline.com

"That character was sort of me sort of trying to write that into my own existence". spin.com

Usage in scientific papers

To treat infinite families of convex definable subgroups, we will add new sorts to Lqe (called “auxiliary sorts”) with canonical parameters for some of them; let us write Gα for the group corresponding to the canonical parameter α.
Quantifier elimination in ordered abelian groups

Note that all of Lqe will be Loag -definable (where new sorts in Lqe are considered as imaginary sorts of Loag ).
Quantifier elimination in ordered abelian groups

We start by introducing the new sorts of Lqe : sorts with canonical parameters for some definable families of convex subgroups.
Quantifier elimination in ordered abelian groups

These new sorts will be called auxiliary sorts ; in contrast, the sort of the ordered abelian group itself will be called the main sort.
Quantifier elimination in ordered abelian groups

Definability (in Loag ) of the groups Gα , α ∈ Sn is proven in Lemma 2.1; once this is done, it is clear that the new sorts are imaginary sorts of Loag and that all of the above is definable.
Quantifier elimination in ordered abelian groups

Usage in literature

Wouldn't she hear the sort of things a woman of that sort ought to? "The Man in the Twilight" by Ridgwell Cullum

That was the sort of thing Marise had meant, so long ago, when they were first engaged, that was the sort of thing she had asked him never to do. "The Brimming Cup" by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

In a joking sort of way, people have congratulated me about it, as if it were some sort of triumph of mine. "The Real Adventure" by Henry Kitchell Webster

But it's a mad, bad, heretical sort of fear, the sort of heresy against nature that people ought to be burnt at the stake for believing! "Captivity" by M. Leonora Eyles

I have had a headache all day, and that's sure to put me out of sorts. "Verner's Pride" by Mrs. Henry Wood

They bring hither also iron, and all sorts of iron tools; pewter vessels of all sorts, as dishes, plates, spoons, etc. "A Voyage to New Holland" by William Dampier

What sort of lessons are they going to put into that smart little head of yours? "The Rebel of the School" by Mrs. L. T. Meade

My sort and Inglesby's sort, we all get ours. "Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man" by Marie Conway Oemler

There was one of your sort came to the meeting of Jameson's moulders this afternoon. "The Lighted Way" by E. Phillips Oppenheim

Why, bairn, the angels have this sort of beauty, and it lasts the longest; that is the sort of face they have there. "Uncle Max" by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Usage in poetry
But she hauds her way to the en' o' the toon,
An' aye she sorts her hair,
Wi' the same wild licht flaffin' up in her een
That shouldna hae been there.
`What is it rules thy singing season?
`What is it rules thy singing season?
Instinct, that diviner Reason,
To which the wish to know seemeth a sort of treason.'
Or, comin' back to Omar's style again,
It's easy fer to pen a sweet refrain
Wiv this 'ere kist a dead-'ead sort o' line,
An' this one rhymin' wiv the former twain.
Great is the palace with pillar and wall,
A sort of a tower on top of it all,
And steps coming down in an orderly way
To where my toy vessels lie safe in the bay.
Dim, as I thread the twilight, on my gaze
The 'glorious street' lies wrapt in misty gloom,
And in grieved sort like statues of past days
The old towers darkly loom.
"He tried the Brocken business first,
But caught a sort of chill ;
So came to England to be nursed,
And here it took the form of THIRST,
Which he complains of still.