Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Sorting   /sˈɔrtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Sort  v. t.  (past & past part. sorted; pres. part. 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."
2.
To reduce to order from a confused state.
3.
To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. "Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects." "She sorts things present with things past."
4.
To choose from a number; to select; to cull. "That he may sort out a worthy spouse." "I'll sort some other time to visit you."
5.
To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. (R.) "I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience."


Sort  v. i.  
1.
To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree. "Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals." "The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company."
2.
To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize. "They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations." "Things sort not to my will." "I can not tell you precisely how they sorted."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar




"Sorting" Quotes from Famous Books



... attempt with an admiral's wings and an orange tip, but I was scouted. About four dilapidated ones make up a proper specimen, and I can't think how it is all to be done in the time; but really something fit to be seen is emerging. Terry is sorting the coins, a pretty job, I should say; but felicity to him. But oh! the industrial articles! There are all the regalia, carved out of cherry-stones, and a patchwork quilt of 5000 bits of silk each no bigger than a shilling. And a calculation of the ...
— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge
... there is news, and no call for sonnet-sorting now, nor for sonnet-making either, but ten thousand men on Penenden Heath all calling after your worship, and your worship's name heard into Maidstone market, and your worship the first man in Kent and Christendom, for the Queen's down, and the world's up, ...
— Queen Mary and Harold • Alfred Lord Tennyson
... start a little after sundown, that is, within an hour, and, having made ready my own baggage and assisted Higgs with his, we went to look for Orme and Quick, whom we found very busy in one of the rooms of an unroofed house. To all appearance they were engaged, Quick in sorting pound tins of tobacco or baking-powder, and Orme in testing an electric battery and carefully examining coils of ...
— Queen Sheba's Ring • H. Rider Haggard
... lobby with the two police officers from Ophir, beside a long wooden box that rested on the floor next to the registration counter. Behind the counter, Quelman Gren, the manager of Chateau Nectaris, was sorting ...
— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay
... kitchen and rooms of the cook and the man-of-all-work. The fourth shall be a general store-house for bottle, crystals, and porcelains. The workshop for our people, in the attic! Passers-by shall no longer see them gumming on the labels, making the bags, sorting the flasks, and corking the phials. Very well for the Rue Saint-Denis, but for the Rue Saint-Honore—fy! bad style! Our shop must be as comfortable as a drawing-room. Tell me, are we the only perfumers ...
— Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau • Honore de Balzac


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com