Look up: Sort

1. sort
   1. (application, algorithm) To arrange a collection of items in some specified order. The items - records in a file or data structures in memory - consist of one or more fields or members. One of these fields is designated as the 'sort key' which means the records will be ordered according to the ...
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2. Sort
   Sort is British slang for an attractive woman.
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3. Sort
   Sort is British slang for an attractive woman.
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4. sort
   [n] - an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion 2. [n] - a person of a particular character or nature 3. [n] - an approximate definition or example
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5. Sort
   A computer term meaning to reorganize and/or to filter information in the process of the reorganization.
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6. sort
   arranging physical units into a sequence Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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7. Sort
   Sort noun [ French sorl , Latin sors , sortis . See Sort kind.] Chance; lot; destiny. [ Obsolete] « By aventure, or sort , or cas [ chance].» Chaucer. « Let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector.» Shak.
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8. Sort
   Sort noun [ French sorie (cf. Italian sorta , sorte ), from Latin sors , sorti , a lot, part, probably akin to serere to connect. See Series , and confer Assort , Consort , Resort
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9. Sort
   Sort transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sorted ; present participle & verbal noun Sorting .] 1. To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having ...
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10. Sort
    Sort intransitive verb 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.» Woodward. &#...
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11. sort
    1. A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterised 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. ... 2. Manner; form of being or acting. 'Which for my part I covet to perform, In sort ...
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12. sort
    noun an approximate definition or example; `she wore a sort of magenta dress`; `she served a creamy sort of dessert thing`
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13. sort
    sorting noun an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; `the bottleneck in mail delivery it the process of sorting`
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14. sort
    noun a person of a particular character or nature; `what sort of person is he?`; `he`s a good sort`
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15. Sort
    • (v. t.) To reduce to order from a confused state. • (v. t.) To choose from a number; to select; to cull. • (n.) 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 hor...
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16. sort
    In computing, a specific function used in a spreadsheet program to arrange selected items into ascending or descending order. Information contained in tables (for example in Microsoft Word) can also be sorted
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17. Sort
    (C++) `sort` is a function in C++ Standard Library that takes two random-access iterators, the start and the end, as arguments and performs a comparison sort on the range of elements between the two iterators, front-inclusive and end-exclusive. The specific sorting algorithm is not mandated a...
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18. Sort
    (Unix) `sort` is a standard Unix command line program that prints the lines of its input or concatenation of all files listed in its argument list in sorted order. Sorting is done based on one or more sort keys extracted from each line of input. By default, the entire input is taken as sort k...
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