sorting
present participle ofsort
| 单词 | sorting |
| 释义 | sorting present participle ofsort sort verb uk/sɔːt/us/sɔːrt/sortverb(ORDER)B2[IorT] to put anumberof things in anorderor toseparatethem intogroups: Paper,plastic, andcansare sorted forrecycling. I'm going to sort theseoldbooksintothose to bekeptand those to bethrownaway. You can use thecomputerto sort thenewspaperarticlesalphabetically,bydate, orbysubject. Shefoundtheringwhile sorting(through)someclothes. to arrange papers, furniture, etc.
Classifying and creating order
sortverb(DEAL WITH)[T]UKinformal todealwith something byrepairingororganizingit: Can you sort thecarbytomorrow? We mustgetthephonesortedsoon. I mustgetthispaperworksorted before I go onholidaynextweek.
Correcting and mending
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Dealing with things or people Phrasal verbssortsomethingout sortsomething/someoneout sortsomeoneout Examplesofsortingsorting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Endusers and graphic arts services are both having a difficult timesortingout the options and which ones make sense. From theCambridge English Corpus Semi-structured and reliable methods of assessing insight counteract this problem to some extent, as does the use of relatively language-free tests such as cardsorting. From theCambridge English Corpus Each sample was rinsed into a large container, the water was drained and all remaining material was preserved in 95% ethanol for subsequentsorting. From theCambridge English Corpus This disunity arose from a degree of geneticsorting-out which it had never known before and was not to know again for another thousand years. From theCambridge English Corpus In a society intent onsortingand ranking its inhabitants, empowering some and excluding others, no single identity fits all. From theCambridge English Corpus So, to begin with, we had some difficulty - to put it mildly - insortingout where we should go and what we should do. From theCambridge English Corpus Infections were often mixed and metacercariae moved within each cyst, making thesortingof individual cysts by collar-spine count impractical. From theCambridge English Corpus Chapter 2 deals with lists, and covers most of the elementary list processing functions, together with a fairly comprehensive treatment ofsorting. From theCambridge English Corpus Sortingthese matters out, though, would lead to issues considerably beyond the scope of this volume. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, the exercise also hopefully serves to convince students that functional programming is about more thansortinglists, and can be useful in practical situations. From theCambridge English Corpus Our earlier described transition matrix determinessortingacross particular earnings quartiles for men and women separately. From theCambridge English Corpus There is thus a need to complement models with exogenous political arrangements with an explanation of institutionalsortingamongst political economies as actually occurs. From theCambridge English Corpus Thissorting-out of social kinds - which, as we have seen, went on continuously in early modern society - extended to characterizations of physical capacity. From theCambridge English Corpus This was a dedicated waiting list program capable ofsortingpatients into the correct order of priority. From theCambridge English Corpus For the attachment measure a trained graduate student provided detailed instructions and was available by telephone to answer questions about thesortingprocedure. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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