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sort en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /sɔːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (UK) audio
• sôrt (Ireland, Scotland)
• (Australia) audio
• sôrt (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio
• /sɔɹt/ (Ireland, Scotland)
• sôrt (Australia, New-Zealand)
• sôrt (General-American)
• /soːt/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
• /soɹt/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (cognate Dutch soort, German Sorte, Danish sort, Swedish sort), borrowed from Old French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sortem, accusative form of sors (“lot, fate, share, rank, category”).

Meanings

1. A general type.
   • Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
   • “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.[…]” 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
   • The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls. 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
   • I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
2. (archaic) Manner, way; form of being or acting.
   • I acknowledge, with Segrais, that I have not succeeded in this attempt, according to my desire: yet I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I may be allow’d to have copied the Clearness, the Purity, the Easiness and the Magnificence of his stile. 1697, John Dryden, The Works of John Dryden, Volume V: Poems, →ISBN:
   • Soon as the term of those six years shall cease, Ye then shall hither back return again, The marriage to accomplish vow’d betwixt you twain. Which for my part, I covet to perform, In sort as through the world I did proclaim, That whoso kill’d that monster (most deform) And him in hardy battle overcame, Should have mine only daughter to his Dame […] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • I’ll deceive you in another sort ca 1590, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus:
   • But to Adam in what sort Shall I appeer? shall I to him make known As yet my change, and give him to partake Full happiness with mee, or rather not, But keep the odds of Knowledge within my power Without copartner? 1667, John Milton, Paradise lost:
   • With the might of that throw Goldry’s wrath departed from him and left him strengthless, in such sort that he reeled as he went from the wrastling ground. 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 27:
   • Such is that argument whereby they that wore on their heads garlands are charged as transgressors of nature’s law, and guilty of sacrilege against God the Lord of nature, inasmuch as flowers, in such sort worn can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them; and God made flowers sweet and beautiful, that being seen and smelt unto, they might so delight. 1845, Richard Hooker, Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine […] :
   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed. 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
3. (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
   • “What think you, Captain Fluellen? is it fit this soldier keep his oath?” “He is a craven and a villain else, an’t please your majesty, in my conscience.” “It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree.” “Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath.” c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V:
4. (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way.
   • Amo, he is the prince. And he is a good sort. You, My Husband, should be among his circle 2014, Mykel D. Myles, The Long Night Of The Demon, →ISBN:
   • There is no problem with this and he seems to be a decent sort with very good reflexes. I will have Felix replaced with him when we get back to Washington because he is more acceptable. 1999 October 14, Heinrich Müller, Müller Journals: 1948-1950, The Washington years:
   • good sort, bad sort
   • One doesn't need to be Einstein to realize he is a bad sort / My wife always said as much. 2014, Seema Jha, Charade978-1-4969-8816-4:
5. (obsolete) Group, company.
   • A boy, a child, and we a sort of us, Vowed against his voyage, yet admit it thus! 1616, George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer:
   • a sort of shepherds suing of the Chace 1595, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser:
   • a sort of doves were housed too near their hall 1687, John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther:
   • What good got you by wearing out your feet, To run on scurvy errands to the poor, and to bear mony to a sort of rogues And lousy prisoners? 1622, Philip Massinger, The Virgin Martyr:
6. (Australia, UK, informal) A good-looking woman.
7. An act of sorting.
   • I had a sort of my cupboard.
8. An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
   • Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.
   • The fastest general algorithm we have considered that sorts keys in a stable manner is the list merge sort, but it does not use minimum storage 2014, Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming. Sorting and Searching, →ISBN:
9. A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
   • Green managed to recover a total of 151 sorts (the name for individual pieces of type) out of a possible 500,000. 2024 May 5, Holly Black, “Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the River Thames”, in artnet:
10. A type.
11. (obsolete) Fate, fortune, destiny.
    • For he is groſſe and like the maſſie earth, That mooues not vpwards, nor by princely deeds Doth meane to ſoare aboue the highest ſort. c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
12. (obsolete) Anything used to determine the answer to a question by chance; lot.
    • No, make a lottery; And, by device, let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector. c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida:
13. (obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes or a suit of clothes.

Forms

Deriveds

all sorts (non-computer-specific terms related to "sort") · good sort (other "sort" terms, not sorted by sort) · topological sort (other "sort" terms, not sorted by sort) · bogo-sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · mergesort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · cycle sort (other "sort" terms, not sorted by sort) · in sort (non-computer-specific terms related to "sort") · allsorts ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · sorta (non-computer-specific terms related to "sort") · quicksort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · sort of (non-computer-specific terms related to "sort") · smoothsort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · heapsort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · introsort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · sort code (other "sort" terms, not sorted by sort) · that's your sort (non-computer-specific terms related to "sort") · copy sort (other "sort" terms, not sorted by sort) · timsort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · picture sort (other "sort" terms, not sorted by sort) · sortal (other "sort" terms, not sorted by sort) · out of sorts (non-computer-specific terms related to "sort") · mergesort (other "sort" terms, not sorted by sort) · middling sort (other "sort" terms, not sorted by sort) · missort (other "sort" terms, not sorted by sort)

Hyponyms

bead sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · timsort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · monkey sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · blort sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · drunk man sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · bucket sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · bozo sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · spaghetti sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · library sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · merge sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · binary tree sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · radix sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · heapsort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · bubble sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · introsort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · in-place sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · stupid sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · pigeonhole sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · stooge sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · introspective sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · comb sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · mergesort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · distribution sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · cocktail sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · gnome sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · insertion sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · smoothsort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · bogosort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · counting sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · stochastic sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · shell sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · selection sort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items) · quicksort ((computing) Algorithm for sorting a list of items)

Synonyms

individual · sort-out (act of sorting) · type (type) · type · sort algorithm (in computing) · variety (type) · sorting algorithm (in computing) · character · genre (type) · genus (type) · type · person · kind (type)

Translations (198)

el είδος (type) · ro fel f and (type) · pl sort (type) · nb slags (type) · sq farë (type) · cs typ (type) · fa-ira رتبیدن (act of sorting) · is gerð (type) · es laya (type) · ko 종류 (type) · it tipo (person) · bg тип (type) · ur نَوع (type) · km ប្រភេទ (type) · fa-ira رتبش (act of sorting) · pt sorte (type) · sl sorta (type) · mk вид (type) · fi lajittelu (act of sorting) · srn sortu (type) · bg вид (type) · ja 並べ替え (act of sorting) · pt ordenador (computing algorithm) · fa-ira نُوع (type) · bg тип (person) · da sortering (act of sorting) · ota جنس (type) · ota فن (type) · hy տիպ (type) · fi tyyppi (person) · cs sorta (type) · nl soort (type) · sk typ (type) · fr tri (computing algorithm) · ru сортиро́вка (act of sorting) · sq soj (type) · ca varietat (type) · lo ຊະນິດ (type) · ru сорт (type) · ca classe (type) · pt tipo (type) · ja 種類 (type) · ota صوی (type) · ja 類い (person) · fa رتبش (computing algorithm) · uk сорт (type) · io sorto (type) · ja ソートアルゴリズム (computing algorithm) · vi loại (type) · bg сорт (type) · ur طَرْح (type) · be від (type) · ca tipus (type) · ru род (type) · te అమరిక (act of sorting) · lo ປະເພດ (type) · de Letter ((typography) metal type) · ota نوع (type) · sh vŕsta (type) · sv typ (person) · yi סאָרט (type) · es suerte (type) · nb sort (type) · tr soy (type) · sv slag (type) · hu fajta (type) · fi tyyppi (type) · mn янз (type) · cmn 排序 (act of sorting) · mn байдал (type) · it specie (type) · ja 並べ替え (computing algorithm) · mk сорта (type) · fr genre (type) · pt ordenação (act of sorting) · nn sort (type) · af soort (type) · sh вр́ста (type) · cmn 類型 /类型 (type) · es calaña (type) · it tipo (type) · de Art (type) · de Sorte (type) · fi aakkostus (alphabetically) (act of sorting) · fr triage (act of sorting) · sv sort (type) · gd seòrsa (type) · pl typ (type) · ms jenis (type) · hi तरह (type) · sv sorteringsalgoritm (computing algorithm) · vec un (person) · tg навъ (type) · ota چشید (type) · sq tip (type) · hy տիպ (person) · tl uri (type) · az cins (type) · fi sortti (type) · sq lloj (type) · vec uno (person) · fr acabit (type) · fo slag (type) · ru тип (type) · hu -féle (type) · tr cins (type) · te రకము (type) · lt tipas (type) · pl sortowanie (act of sorting) · ca gènere (type) · th ชนิด (type) · ar نَوْع (type) · ru алгори́тм сортиро́вки (computing algorithm) · fa-ira قِسْم (type) · grc εἶδος (type) · hi किस्म (type) · af sortering (act of sorting) · fi sorttaus (computing algorithm) · af soort (person) · es índole (type) · he סוּג (type) · af sorteeralgoritme (computing algorithm) · lb Zort (type) · lv burtstabiņi ((typography) metal type) · fa-ira مرتبسازی (act of sorting) · is tegund (type) · my မျိုး (type) · cmn 種類 /种类 (type) · ja 類い (type) · bg подреждане (act of sorting) · cmn 類 /类 (type) · fr type (person) · is sort (type) · mn төрөл (type) · ja ソート (computing algorithm) · be род (type) · tl klase (type) · eo speco (type) · pt tipo (person) · ca mena (type) · sl vrsta (type) · hi क़िस्म (type) · pdt Sort (type) · ka ტიპი (type) · ja ソート (act of sorting) · be сорт (type) · uk вид (type) · fi järjestely (act of sorting) · da slags (type) · fi kirjake ((typography) metal type) · et liik (type) · gd gnè (type) · es género (type) · ur قِسْم (type) · lv tips (type) · et sort (type) · ota صنف (type) · sv sortering (act of sorting) · hu válogat (act of sorting) · he סידור (act of sorting) · mn хэлбэр (type) · nl sorteren (act of sorting) · es jaez (type) · uk тип (type) · ur طَرَح (type) · ro gen (type) · fr type (type) · bn প্রকার (type) · ru тип (person) · es ralea (type) · pl rodzaj (type) · be тып (type) · fi kirjasin ((typography) metal type) · hy սեռ (type) · lv veids (type) · sh sȏrta (type) · fi laji (type) · th ประเภท (type) · af tipe (type) · da sort (type) · ja 人 (person) · mn зүйл (type) · fa مرتبسازی (computing algorithm) · nn slags (type) · ga sórt (type) · it genere (type) · bg сортиране (act of sorting) · vec sòrt (type) · ru вид (type) · uk рід (type) · fa-ira جور (type) · izh sorttu (type) · he מיון (computing algorithm) · vi hạng (type) · sk sorta (type) · sh со̑рта (type) · ru сортиро́вка (computing algorithm) · ca mena (type)

sort en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /sɔːt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (UK) audio
• sôrt (Ireland, Scotland)
• (Australia) audio
• sôrt (Received-Pronunciation)
• (US) audio
• /sɔɹt/ (Ireland, Scotland)
• sôrt (Australia, New-Zealand)
• sôrt (General-American)
• /soːt/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
• /soɹt/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English sorten, from Old French sortir (“to allot, sort”), from Latin sortīre (“draw lots, divide, choose”), from sors.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
   • Sort the letters in those bags into a separate pile for each language.
   • And seeing the Rays which differ in Refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another, and that either by Refraction..., or by Reflexion..., and then the several sorts apart at equal Incidences suffer unequal Refractions,...; it's manifest that the Sun's Light is an heterogeneous Mixture of Rays..., as was proposed. 1704, Isaac Newton, Opticks:
   • Jaime finally leaves her [Cersei], walking right past his imminent executioner, and rides out of King’s Landing, finally neatly sorting our humans into good and evil and Bronn. 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
   • "Is there a man among ye has the Gaelic? ... Is there a man among ye can speak English even? ... Is there a man among ye at all? Ye gang o' lasceevious auld de'ils, decked oot like weemin, in spite o' yer hairy long whuskers, full beards and full skirts, ye deceitful besoms. Whuskers and petticoats wi' the vices o' both and the virtues o' neither. I'll sorrt ye." And there were sounds of alarums and excursions within. 1929, Percival Christopher Wren, Good Gestes, The McSnorrt Reminiscent:
2. (transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
   • Sort those bells into a row in ascending sequence of pitch.
3. (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
   • Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insecta. 1635, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries:
   • For when she sorts things present with things past And thereby things to come doth oft foresee; When she doth doubt at first, and chuse at last, These acts her owne, without her body bee. 1599, John Davies, Nosce Teipsum:
4. (obsolete, transitive) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
   • I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience. ca 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 2:
5. (obsolete, transitive) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
   • To send his mother to her father's house, that he may sort her out a worthy spouse 1616, George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer:
   • I'll sort some other time to visit you. ca 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 1:
6. (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
   • Nor do Metalls only sort and herd with Metalls in the Earth : and Minerals with Minerals : but both indifferently and in common together: Iron with Vitriol, with Alum, with Sulphur: Copper with Sulphur, with Vitriol, &c. yea Iron, Copper, Lead, Nitre, Sulphur, Vitriol, and perhaps some more in one and the same Mass. 1695, John Woodward, An essay toward a natural history of the earth:
   • The illiberality of Parents in allowance towards their children is an harmefull error: makes them base; acquaints them with shifts, makes them sort with meane companie; and makes them surfet more, when they come to plenty. 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Parents and Children:
7. (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
   • They are happie men, whose natures sort with their vocations, otherwise they may say Multum incola fuit anima mea; when they converse in those things they doe not affect. 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Nature in Men:
   • I cannot tell ye precisely how they sorted; but they agreed sae right that Donald was invited to dance at the wedding in his Highland trews, and they said that there was never sae meikle siller clinked in his purse either before or since. 1814, Walter Scott, Waverley:
8. (UK, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
   • ‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming [title] 2024 February 25, Donna Ferguson, “‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming”, in The Observer:
9. (UK, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.
   • If he comes nosing around here again I'll sort him!
10. (transitive) To geld.

Forms

Deriveds

resort · sort the wheat from the chaff · sortkey · sort out · unsort · alphasort · sort-while-pick · pick-and-sort · serosort · sorted · presort · missort · sortase · archaeosortase · sort oneself out · besort · subsort · sortable · sortation · sortability · sort through · immunosort · Timsort · sorting · sortal · Shellsort · re-sort · cubesort

Synonyms

sort out · categorize · class · order · sort out · rank · classify · group

Translations (102)

uk сортува́ти (separate according to certain criteria) · fr trier (arrange in order) · sv fixa (fix a problem) · ja 分類する (separate according to certain criteria) · da løse (fix a problem) · it setacciare (separate according to certain criteria) · nl rangschikken (arrange in order) · fr sasser (separate according to certain criteria) · uk посортува́ти (separate according to certain criteria) · ru разбира́ться (fix a problem) · ca ordenar (arrange in order) · ja ソートする (arrange in order) · pl posortować (arrange in order) · da sortere (arrange in order) · ca colar (separate according to certain criteria) · ca cerndre (separate according to certain criteria) · es acomodar (separate according to certain criteria) · pt arrumar (fix a problem) · fr trier (separate according to certain criteria) · ja 選別する (separate according to certain criteria) · la discribō (separate according to certain criteria) · fi erotella (separate according to certain criteria) · es acotejar (arrange in order) · eo ordigi (arrange in order) · is sortera (separate according to certain criteria) · ru отсортирова́ть (separate according to certain criteria) · fa گروهیستن (separate according to certain criteria) · te అమర్చు (separate according to certain criteria) · fr classer (separate according to certain criteria) · fa رتبیدن (arrange in order) · ru разобра́ть (separate according to certain criteria) · ro sorta (arrange in order) · pl sortować (separate according to certain criteria) · ar فَرَزَ (separate according to certain criteria) · es surtir (arrange in order) · cs řadit (arrange in order) · fr ranger (arrange in order) · cmn 分類 /分类 (separate according to certain criteria) · af groepeer (separate according to certain criteria) · it riordinare (arrange in order) · es sortear (arrange in order) · mi māhiti (separate according to certain criteria) · fi (alphabetically) aakkostaa (arrange in order) · ca arreglar (fix a problem) · te పేర్చు (separate according to certain criteria) · cmn 整理 (arrange in order) · mi māwhiti (separate according to certain criteria) · ru разобра́ться (fix a problem) · de sortieren (arrange in order) · ru отсортирова́ть (arrange in order) · bg подреждам (arrange in order) · te పేర్చు (arrange in order) · de sortieren (separate according to certain criteria) · ga togh (separate according to certain criteria) · uk посортува́ти (arrange in order) · pt coar (separate according to certain criteria) · nl sorteren (separate according to certain criteria) · ja 整列する (arrange in order) · ru сортирова́ть (arrange in order) · cs třídit (separate according to certain criteria) · he סדר (arrange in order) · bg разпределям (separate according to certain criteria) · ca classificar (separate according to certain criteria) · pt classificar (separate according to certain criteria) · af sorteer (arrange in order) · es sortear (separate according to certain criteria) · sv sortera (separate according to certain criteria) · fi selvittää (fix a problem) · af sorteer (separate according to certain criteria) · fa مرتبسازی (arrange in order) · pt ordenar (arrange in order) · sv ordna (arrange in order) · es encasillar (separate according to certain criteria) · ro clasifica (separate according to certain criteria) · af klassifiseer (separate according to certain criteria) · ru разбира́ть (separate according to certain criteria) · fi järjestää (arrange in order) · fi hoitaa (fix a problem) · he מיין (arrange in order) · es compaginar (arrange in order) · et järjestama (arrange in order) · bg сортирам (separate according to certain criteria) · fi lajitella (separate according to certain criteria) · he מיין (separate according to certain criteria) · it stacciare (separate according to certain criteria) · ro aranja (arrange in order) · no sortere (arrange in order) · lv šķirot (separate according to certain criteria) · te అమర్చు (arrange in order) · ru сортирова́ть (separate according to certain criteria) · ca reparar (fix a problem) · lv atlasīt (separate according to certain criteria) · he סדר (separate according to certain criteria) · af rangskik (arrange in order) · pl posortować (separate according to certain criteria) · cs seřadit (arrange in order) · is flokka (separate according to certain criteria) · af kategoriseer (separate according to certain criteria) · it smistare (separate according to certain criteria) · uk сортува́ти (arrange in order) · pl sortować (arrange in order) · ro împărți (separate according to certain criteria)