Sort Out

Definition: Sort Out

Sort Out

Verb

1. Arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?".

2. Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear: "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault".

3. Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience; "The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Sort Out

Crosswords: Sort Out

He has a lot of things to sort out before he graduates. (Ferris Bueller's Day Off; writing credit: John Hughes.)

Just, had a few things to sort out. (Spaced; writing credit: Simon Pegg; Jessica Stevenson)

She needs to sort out her priorities. (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; writing credit: Steven Kloves)

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Books

• 80 Percent Principle: The Easy Way to Sort Out Life's Problems That Really Works (reference)

• Life's Too Short to Fold Your Underwear: Hope and Humor to Help You Sort Out What Matters (reference)

• The Misspeller's Guide: Find Correct Spellings Fast, Sort Out Sound-Alikes, Avoid Confusables (reference)

• Up to Your Armpits in Alligators: How to Sort Out What Risks Are Worrying About! (reference)

• When Your Partner Wants to Leave: How to Sort Out Your Feelings and Plan for the Future (Your Pocket Therapist Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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You are not alone. : Helping sort out life's problems is our job. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Health

In the attempt to develop better interventions, researchers are now trying to find and sort out the many factors that determine caregiver stress. (references)

He or she will usually obtain a detailed medical history and perform a physical examination to start to sort out possible causes of the balance disorder. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "sort out": sort out smth. for smb.. Additional references.

Albanian

vë në rregull (arrange, fix up, methodize, place, Square), terezis, rendit (calendar, collocate, compose, dispose, enumerate, line, Marshal, rank), rendis (calendar, collocate, compose, dispose, enumerate, line, Marshal, rank), ndaj (allot, apportion, at, bar, by, come between, cut, detach, disarticulate, disembody, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, distribute, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, fissure, fractionate, grade, hand out, joint, on, part, partition, reconcile, rope off, section, segregate, separate, sever, share, space, split, sunder, toward, towards, unjoint, unlink, unscramble, unto, winnow), klasifikoj (assort, categorize, classify, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, label, range, rank, rate, separate, sort, type). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, brain, catch, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, penetrate, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, skulk, take in, twig, understand, understanding, understood), ‏عرف (acquaint, constitution, convention, custom, define, figure out, form, habit, impart, know, know what's what, locate, manners, mores, realize, rule, savvy, see, tradition, usage, use), ‏شرح (account for, anatomize, be explained, caption, commentary, cut into slices, demonstrate, demonstration, dissect, elucidate, elucidation, explain, explanation, explication, exposition, expound, puzzle out, represent, slice). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нареждам (arrange, bid, collocate, decree, dispose, dress, enjoin, have, lay out, make, ordain, order, pack, pitch, range, seriate, set, set out, set up, settle, tell, trim), наказвам (amerce, castigate, chasten, correct, discipline, pay out, penalize, punish, smite), подреждам (adjust, arrange, assort, compose, dispose, do up, plash, pleach, preen, process, put in order, seriate, snug, tidy, trim), избирам (choose, cull, elect, make, mark down, name, opt, pick, pick out, put in, return, select, settle on, single out). (various references)

Chinese 

整理 (arrange, list systematically). (various references)

Czech

vytřídit, dát do pořádku (put in order). (various references)

French

savoir, ranger, comprendre. (various references)

German

aussortieren (comb out, reject, to sort out). (various references)

Greek 

ξεκαθαρίζω (clarify, clear off, clear up, make clear, net), ξεδιαλύνω (puzzle out, thrash out, untwine, untwist). (various references)

Hungarian

kiválaszt (choose, cull, excrete, exude, pick out, secrete, to cut out, to designate, to excrete, to exude, to predestinate, to select, to separate, to single out, to sort). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

選り分ける (to classify, to sort out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

よりわける (to classify, to sort out), えりわける (to classify, to sort out). (various references)

Manx

sorchaghey (assort; sorting, sort), cur reaghys er (clear up, tidy). (various references)

Pig Latin

ortsay outay

Portuguese

separar (branch, break, buddle, calve, detach, disassemble, disband, disconnect, discriminate, disembody, disengage, disestablish, disintegrate, disjoin, dispart, dissever, dissociate, disunite, divide, divvy, insulate, island, isolate, keep apart, outbreak, part, seclude, segregate, separate, sever, sort, sunder, uncouple, unleash, unlink, wean), escolher (adopt, choose, cull, elect, like, list, opt, pick, pick out, run up, select, single, sort, take, to choose). (various references)

Romanian

selecţiona (choose, seed, select, sort). (various references)

Russian 

рассортировать, разобрать (analyse, analyze, disassemble, dismantle, dismount, make out, study out, take to pieces, unmake), отбирать (adeem, adeemed, choose, cull, handpick, pick, select, single out, staple, tell off, weed away, weed out), перебрать (look over), перебирать (look over). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razvrstati (classify, grade, staple), razmrsiti (disembroil, disentangle, straighten out, tease, unravel, unscramble, unsnarl, untangle). (various references)

Spanish

solucionar (crack, deatch, detach, release, remove, solve, unfix), explicar (account for, clarify, explain, explicate, interpret, lay out, put, show), encasillar (pigeonhole, typecast), clasificar (assort, break down, class, classify, file, grade, index, order, pick, range, rank, rate, scale, select, separate, sort, stream, type), arreglar (accommodate, arrange, assort, do, doctor, dress, fix, fix up, frame, lay out, line up, mend, order, patch up, posh up, put in order, quadrate, regularize, regulate, rig up, set right, settle, sew up, smarten, smarten up, smooth, smooth out, sort, Square, stage, tell off, tidy, tidy out, tidy up, tie up, trim up). (various references)

Swedish

gallra (cull, screen, thin, thin out, weed out). (various references)

Turkish

seçip ayırmak, sınıflandırmak (assort, categorize, class, classify, divide, grade, graduate, group, label, label as, rate, sort, subsume), tasnif etmek (classify, sort), icabına bakmak (manage, see about, see to, settle smb.'s hash, sort smb. out), halletmek (adjust, arrange, clear up, compound, dispatch, dispose of, dissolve, figure out, get things done, hurdle, lay on, lick, manage, overcome, polish off, resolve, solve, sort, Square, surmount, unriddle, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unzip, work out), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow), ayıklamak (clean out, comb out, grub up, pick, pick over, pluck, select, sort, weed out, weed up, winnow), çözümlemek (analyse, analyze, clear up, construe, resolve, solve, sort). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: torous, trouts, tutors.

-2 letters: ottos, roost, roots, rotos, roust, routs, stour, stout, strut, sturt, toots, toros, torot, torso, torts, torus, tours, touts, trots, trout, trust, tutor.

-3 letters: oots, orts, otto, ours, oust, outs, root, roto, rots, rout, rust, ruts, soot, sort, sour, toot, toro, tors, tort, tost, tots, tour, tout, trot, tuts.

-4 letters: oot.

+1 letter: outports, outroots, outtrots, tortious, tortuous.

+2 letters: outermost, outstrode, outthrobs, outthrows, outtowers, torturous.

+3 letters: autoroutes, autotrophs, ecotourist, fortuitous, obstructor, obturators, outercoats, outgrowths, portentous, postulator, prosciutto, puttyroots, roustabout, stertorous, toothbrush, tortiously, tortuosity, tortuously, traitorous.

+4 letters: autoerotism, autorotates, commutators, constructor, countershot, countertops, ecotourists, frontcourts, motormouths, motortrucks, obstruction, obstructors, obturations, opportunist, pittosporum, postulators, prosciuttos, prostitutor, roustabouts, thoroughest, torturously, troubleshot, ultrasmooth, woodcutters.

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