sorting machine

collocation in English

meaningsofsortandmachine

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sort
noun
uk
/sɔːt/us
/sɔːrt/
a group of things that are of the same type or that share ...
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machine
noun[C]
uk
/məˈʃiːn/us
/məˈʃiːn/
a piece of equipment with several moving parts that uses power to do a particular type ...
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(Definition ofsortandmachinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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What has happened to the electronicsortingmachine?
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It really should not be suggested to us that the electronicsortingmachineand the other items are something new which have been thought out overnight.
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The parcelsortingmachinehas been perfected and will be installed in sorting offices as soon as they are rebuilt.
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The practitioner has become a kind ofsortingmachineto the consultant or the hospitals.
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Following trials with a variety of equipment we have now obtained a new type of parcelsortingmachinewhich we believe will meet all our requirements.
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Even if we were to get uniform envelopes before thesortingmachineis ready to be introduced, that at least would increase the efficiency of the hand sorters.
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The address details on the postal items will be scanned by thesortingmachineand this image will be sent to a computer that is connected to the network.
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The exhibition also includes a herringsortingmachine, information boards about fishing and boat building as well as personalities of the local fishery.
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While early forms of a mechanical mail sorter were developed and tested in the 1920s, the firstsortingmachinewas put into operation in the 1950s.
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The cards were punched, corrected, sorted by hand (there was nosortingmachine), and printed on the white side of green bar paper used for accounting.
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This enables the mailsortingmachineto "face" the mail and sort it into types.
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We are still waiting for efficient mechanical sorting machines.
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What saving is it expected will be made from carrying out the labour-intensive side of these sortings by using great rotary sorting machines?
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The code marked letters can then be sorted and re-sorted as often as may be necessary by automatic sorting machines which do not need operators.
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It is as modern as phosphor bars in postage stamps and as automatic sorting machines for envelopes; it is as modern as a computer, and as a computer-controlled electronic exchange.
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This meant that automated sorting machines could not reliably sort them when mixed with earlier coins.
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This opened the way for the first automated reader/sorting machines for clearing cheques.
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