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unsort en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + sort, apparently by confusion of unravel, untangle or similar and sort.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard, transitive) To sort out; to resolve.
   • In his letter to Virginia's governor excerpted below, Rolfe tries to unsort the mixture of motives that led to his decision to marry Pocahantas. 2003, Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, A Documentary History of Religion in America to 1877, page 54:
   • I try to unsort this big tangle of things that all of a sudden I've tripped over. 2008, Susan McGeown, Call Me Elle, page 48:
2. To shuffle a data structure so that it is no longer sorted.
   • And what if we want to unsort an array? The shuffle ( ) function uses PHP's random number generator to re-arrange the elements of an array randomly. 1999, Jesus Castagnetto, Professional PHP Programming, page 162:

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