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Definition: Sorting |
SortingNoun1. An operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery it the process of sorting". 2. The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories. 3. Grouping by class or kind or size. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sorting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Sorting See sort. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Environment | Division of, for example, waste into different categories. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A selected process, governed by various criteria, essentially designed to eliminate non-saleable products. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Progressive reduction of size(or weight)of particles of the load carried down a river. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Separation of waste paper or textile material, e. g. rags, into groups according to quality for subsequent manufacture into paper or board(1); the examination of sheets of paper or board individually, so that the defective ones may be rejected(2). Source: European Union. (references) |
Military | See triage. (references) |
Mining | A. In a genetic sense, it may be applied to the dynamic process by which granular or fragmental material having some particular characteristic, such as similar size, shape, specific gravity, or hydraulic value, is selected from a larger heterogeneous mass. b. The degree of similarity, in respect to some particular characteristic, of the component parts in a mass of material. c. A measure of the spread of a distribution on either side of an average. d. The separation of coal or ore as mined into valuable material and waste.e. See:handpicking. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Division of the postal items, manually or by machine, into groups according to the final delivery offices. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In computer science and mathematics, a sort algorithm is an algorithm that puts elements of a list into order by means of a certain ordering, often lexicographical. Efficient sorting is important to optimizing the use of other algorithms (such as search algorithms and merge algorithms) that require sorted lists to work correctly; it is also often useful for canonicalizing data and for producing human-readable output.
Sort algorithms used in computer science are often classified by:
Sorting algorithms that are not stable can be specially implemented to be stable. One way of doing this is to artificially extend the key comparison, such that comparisons between two objects with otherwise equal keys are decided using the order of the entries in the original data order as a tie-breaker.
- computational complexity (worst, average and best behaviour) in terms of the size of the list (n). Typically, good behaviour is O(n log n) and bad behaviour is O(n2). Sort algorithms which only use an abstract key comparison operation always need at least O(n log n) comparisons on average; sort algorithms which exploit the structure of the key space cannot sort faster than O(n log k) where k is the size of the keyspace.
- memory usage (and use of other computer resources)
- stability: stable sorts keep the relative order of elements that have an equal key. That is, a sort algorithm is stable if whenever there are two records R and S with the same key and with R appearing before S in the original list, R will appear before S in the sorted list. (Unstable sort algorithms can usually be made artificially stable by adding an extra number to the key defining the position in the original list.)
Some sorting algorithms follow, in typical runtime order, grouped by stability:
Stable
- Bubble sort - O(n²)
- Cocktail sort (bidirectional bubble sort) - O(n²)
- Insertion sort - O(n²)
- Bucket sort - O(n); requires O(n) extra memory
- Counting sort - O(n+k); requires O(n+k) extra memory
- Merge sort - O(n log n)
- Binary tree sort - O(n log n); requires O(n) extra memory
- Pigeonhole sort - O(n+k); requires O(k) extra memory
- Radix sort - O(nk); requires O(n) extra space
Unstable
Questionable sort algorithms not intended for production use:
- Shell sort - O(n1.25)
- Comb sort - O(n log n)
- Selection sort - O(n²)
- Heapsort - O(n log n)
- Smoothsort - O(n log n)
- Quicksort - O(n log n), O(n²) worst case
See work-in-place article for the list of sort algorithms that can be written as work-in-place.
- Bogosort - O((n/2)!); requires O(n) extra space
An old version of QBASIC has a file "sortdemo.bas" in the examples folder that provides a graphical representation of several of the various sort procedures described here, as well as performance ratings of each.
Compare with:
- sorting networks
External links and References
- D. E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching.
- http://www.iti.fh-flensburg.de/lang/algorithmen/sortieren/algoen.htm has analyses of many of these algorithms.
- http://www.aeriesoft.ru/Projects/SortAlg/ has information on many of these algorithms.
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates has many sorting algorithms on the Web at http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~rbaeza/handbook/sort_a.html
- For a 'Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems' go to http://www.nist.gov/dads/
- For some slides and pdf's see Manchester university's course notes: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~graham/cs2011.html
- For a repository of algorithms with source code and lectures, see The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository at http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sort algorithm."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sorting refers to various ways of arranging or ordering things.
Sorting information or data
One important kind of sorting is arranging items of information in sequence according to some pre-defined ordering, e.g. when one sorts the books in a library alphabetically by title, subject or author. The problem of how to change the order of lists according to given criteria is simply called sorting in computer science. It is one of extensively researched subjects in it; see sort algorithm.
The main purpose of sorting information is to optimise its usefulness for specific tasks. In general, there are two ways of sorting information: by category e.g. a shopping catalogue where items are grouped together under headings such as 'home', 'sport & leisure', 'women's clothes' etc. and in a hierarchy according to some property e.g. from cheapest to most expensive. Richard Saul Wurman, in his book Information Anxiety, proposes Alphabetical, by Location and by Time as being the most common sorting methods (these are actually special cases of category (location, alphabetical) and hierarchy (time). Together these give the acronym LATCH (Location, Alphabetical, Time, Category, Hierarchy) and can be used to describe just about every type of ordered information.
Physical sorting processes
Various sorting tasks are essential in industrial processes. For example, during the extraction of gold from ore, a device called a shaker table uses gravity, vibration, and flow to separate gold from lighter materials in the ore. Sorting is also a naturally occurring process that results in the concentration of ore. Sorting results from the application of some criterion or differential stressor to a mass to separate it into its components based on some variable quality. Materials that are different, but only slightly so, such as the isotopes of uranium, are very difficult to separate.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sorting."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| SOSC | English | Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Centre | N/A |
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Synonyms: SortingSynonyms: categorisation (n), categorization (n), classification (n), sort (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrangement | Noun: arrangement; plan; preparation; disposal, disposition; collocation, allocation; distribution; sorting; Verb: assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization; grouping; tabulation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sorting |
| English words defined with "sorting": accessorial ♦ Dilluing ♦ Exhaust purifier ♦ Flour dresser ♦ High milling ♦ mailsorter ♦ postal code, postcode ♦ rag ♦ separation, sorter ♦ triage ♦ zip code. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sorting": outward sorting ♦ SORTING SUPERVISOR, SUPERVISOR, LOG SORTING. (references) |
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 | Several shots of a scientist in a laboratory setting, wearing a white coat and performing a test. Only his hands are visible in some of the photos. The scientist is sorting B-cells taken from the bone marrow of a patient with Lupus disease. The Lupus antibody-producing cell is isolated in a well, to be fused with a cancerous mouse myeloma B-cell, producing a hybridoma. Hybridomas produce identical monoclonal antibodies in large quantities and indefinitely. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | A middle school field trip to Kings Landing. Inspecting content and sorting the catch of a seine net after dragging. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Scientists sorting and sampling redfish. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Sorting catch on MILLER FREEMAN. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Sorting pilchard (Sardinops Sagax) and chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus) in the Paita refrigeration plant. These fish are being processed for human consumption . Credit: Fisheries. |  | Sorting the catch on the MILLER FREEMAN. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Chris Doley, of NOAA, en route to begin sample sorting. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Sorting gillnet samples at the beach. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Emptying a small trawl onto the sorting table - Photo #1 of sequence. Operations on the NOAA Ship OREGON II. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Scientists sorting and measuring the catch. Operations on the NOAA Ship OREGON II. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Sorting the bills" by Vi Xs Commentary: "My monthly occurrence." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | For a long time, the Swedish option has been sorting at the source. (references) | |
It also includes the collection and sorting of recyclable materials from commercial and industrial waste paper recovered by scavengers before initial production. (references) | ||
The U.S. has taken the lead position in the supply of meat processing equipment and machines for cleaning, sorting and grading seed, grain or dried leguminous vegetables. (references) | ||
Economic History | Greece | The zones also may be used for repackaging, sorting and re-labeling operations. (references) |
Uzbekistan | According to the law on free economic zones, passed on April 25, 1996, zones of free trade include consigned warehouses, free customs zones, and zones for the processing, packing, sorting and storage of goods. (references) | |
Brazil | Best U.S. export prospects in this sector include sophisticated, state-of-the-art machinery with higher efficiency level, including the following equipment (1) irrigation equipment; (2) harvesting and post-harvesting machinery; (3) poultry equipment; (4) fruit sorting and grading machines; and (5) GPS and precision agriculture devices. (references) | |
Trade | Switzerland | Goods may be unpacked and repacked, as well as undergo certain processing such as analysis, sorting, mixing and sampling. (references) |
Ireland | Processing, sorting, grading, or repackaging of the goods may take place within the zone, and buildings may be leased or built. (references) | |
Ireland | In addition to storage facilities, the Board provides services needed by distributors such as packing, sorting, bottling, and transport service. (references) | |
Worker Rights | China | Female prisoners clean toilets and also are involved in tailoring, cleaning, or spinning and sorting wool to be used in the manufacture of carpets and sweaters. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | I think they should be sentenced to community service sorting the shoe bin at Goodwill in a low-income neighborhood to get a sense of how real people have to get by. |
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| "Sorting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 87.28% of the time. "Sorting" is used about 565 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 87.28% | 493 | 12,167 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.3% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.77% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.65% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 565 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sorting": card sorting ♦ do the first sorting ♦ external sorting ♦ first sorting ♦ magnetic activated cell sorting ♦ outward sorting ♦ Protein Sorting Signals ♦ sorting algorithm ♦ sorting machine ♦ sorting office ♦ sorting out ♦ sorting program. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "sorting": block-sorting, card-sorting, frost-sorting, re-sorting, rice-sorting, time-sorting, waste-sorting. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sorting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ndarje (allotment, bay, break, chamber, cleavage, compartment, detachment, differentiation, disjunction, dismemberment, dissociation, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, estrangement, fission, fissure, fragmentation, leave taking, outgiving, parceling, parcelling, parting, partition, schism, scission, secession, segmentation, segregation, separation, severance, share out, spacing, split, splitting), klasifikim (classification, distribution, gradation, rating). (various references) | |
Arabic | فرز (division, isolate, isolation, separation, sort), تصنيف (assortment, breed, classification, compilation, digestion, distribution, place, ranking, rating, standing, table). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сортиране (assortment, separation, triage), разпределяне (allocation, allotment, dispensation, division, stowage). (various references) | |
Chinese | 排序 (sort, sorted). (various references) | |
Danish | syning (inspection, selection, stringing), sortering (classification, dockage, grading, inspection, riddling, screening, selection, separation, sort), sortere (grade, grading), bredning (expand, extend), adskillelse (partition, separation). (various references) | |
Dutch | sortering (assortment), sorteren (classification, classify, grading, inspection, selection, separating, separation, sizing, sort, to sort), scheiding (divorce), scheiden (break up, disintegrate, divide, get a divorce, get divorced, separate), openvouwen, fractievorming, afscheiding (breakaway, partition, secession, secretion, separation), afscheiden (divide, secrete, separate). (various references) | |
Finnish | erottelu (discrimination, segregation). (various references) | |
French | tri (sort, sorting out). (various references) | |
German | Sortierung (sort). (various references) | |
Greek | γυάλισμα καλύμματος, ταξινόμηση (assortment, classification, rating), διαχωρισμός (separation), διαλέγω (choose, elect, garble, go for, pick, pick out, select, single somebody out, sort), διαλογή (triage). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מיון (assortment, classification, grade, grading, indexing), סווג (categorization, classification, grading). (various references) | |
Hungarian | osztályozás (assortment, classification, docketing, gradation, grading, labelling, rating, taxonomy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengkotak-kotakan (segregation, separation). (various references) | |
Italian | smistamento (shunt, shunting, switching), ordinamento (arrangement, order, ordinance, regulation, regulations, rules, sort), classificazione (classification), cernita (picking, selection). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 区分け (classification, compartment, demarcation, division, lane, section), 区分 (classification, compartment, demarcation, division, lane, section), 整理 (adjustment, arrangement, regulation), 整理 (adjustment, arrangement, regulation), ソーダ石灰 (saute, Seoul, soap, soarer, social worker, society, socket, socks, Socrates, soda lime, solar, solar system, sonata, sort, sortie, soul, sword, Turkish baths associated with prostitution). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くぶん (classification, compartment, demarcation, division, lane, section), くわけ (classification, compartment, demarcation, division, lane, section), せいり (adjustment, arrangement, menses, physiology, regulation), ソーティング . (various references) | |
Korean | 분류 (Assorting, Classification, Classifying, Classing). (various references) | |
Manx | sorchaghey (assort; sorting, sort, sort out), oik sorchal (sorting office). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ortingsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | separação natural das partículas da carga, selecção (selection), triagem (classification, cleaning, grading, separation), esticamento (stretch), escolha (adoption, assortment, choice, choose, election, option, pick, refusal, selection), divisão (allotment, boundary, compartment, dismemberment, division, fission, fraction, frontier, lith, meiosis, military division, parceling, parcelling, parting, scission, section, separation, severance, split). (various references) | |
Romanian | selecţionare (selecting, selection), triere, triaj, clasificare (arrangement, classification, rating). (various references) | |
Russian | сортировка (decollator, triage), сортировать сортировка, классификация (categorization, classification, regimentation). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sortiranje (assortment). (various references) | |
Spanish | ordenación (ordination, sort), clasificación (assortment, classification, filing, label, order, ordering, rating, separation, sort, table). (various references) | |
Swedish | sortering (assortment). (various references) | |
Turkish | sınıflandırma (assortment, classification, grading, ordination, rating, subsumption), sınıflama (classification), türlere göre ayırma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сортування (assortment, batching, classification, garble, gradation, picking, separation, triage), класифікація (classification, distribution, division, grouping, ordination, sizing, system). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | triage. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "sorting": assorting, consorting, missorting, presorting, reassorting, resorting. (additional references) | |
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"Sorting" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dorting, Ostrin, rorting, Sartini, Sbordini, softing, soring, sorning, sorti, sortine, sotin, sotring, Storton. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sorting" (pronounced sô"rting) |
| 6 | s ô" r t i ng | consorting. |
| 5 | -ô" r t i ng | aborting, cavorting, courting, deporting, distorting, exhorting, exporting, extorting, homeporting, importing, nonsporting, porting, purporting, reporting, resorting, shorting, snorting, sporting, supporting, thwarting, transporting, underreporting. |
| 4 | -r t i ng | carting, charting, darting, departing, escorting, imparting, marting, parting, restarting, smarting, starting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, depicting, depleting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, extenuating, exterminating, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, respecting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smelting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, speculating, spitting, splitting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: storing, trigons. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: girons, griots, grison, groins, ingots, intros, nitros, rosing, signor, soring, stingo, string, strong, tigons, trigon, trigos. | |
-2 letters: girns, giron, giros, girts, grins, griot, grist, grits, groin, grots, ingot, intro, irons, nitro, noirs, noris, ornis, rings, riots, rosin, rotis, snort, sting, tigon, tings, tiros, tongs, torsi, trigo, trigs, trios, trois. | |
-3 letters: gins, girn, giro. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: frosting, genitors, ignitors, organist, outgrins, outrings, ringtoss, roasting, roosting, rousting, shorting, snorting, sporting, storming, storying, stroking, strowing, stroying, tourings, worsting. | |
+2 letters: assorting, bowstring, corseting, escorting, foresting, fostering, frostings, frowsting, gravitons, gyrations, ignitrons, ingrowths, mortising, motorings, nitrogens, northings, orangiest, organists, oystering, pastoring, posturing, progestin, resorting, restoking, restoring, rigatonis, ringbolts, riposting, rogations, sectoring, signatory, sortieing, sprouting, stereoing, strolling, strongish, stropping, strouding, tonsuring, trollings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Spoken 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Abbreviations | 17. Acronyms 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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