Sort vs. Sift

Sortnoun

A general type.

Sortnoun

Manner; form of being or acting.

Sortnoun

(obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.

Sortnoun

(informal) A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).

Sortnoun

(dated) Group, company.

Sortnoun

A good-looking woman.

Sortnoun

An act of sorting.

Sortnoun

(computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.

Sortnoun

(typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.

Sortnoun

(mathematics) A type.

Sortnoun

(obsolete) Chance; lot; destiny.

Sortnoun

(obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.

Sortverb

(transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.

Sortverb

(transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.

Sortverb

(transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.

Sortverb

To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.

Sortverb

To choose from a number; to select; to cull.

Sortverb

(intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.

Sortverb

(intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.

Sortverb

To fix a problem or handle a task; to sort out.

Sortnoun

Chance; lot; destiny.

Sortnoun

A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.

Sortnoun

Manner; form of being or acting.

Sortnoun

Condition above the vulgar; rank.

Sortnoun

A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.

Sortnoun

A pair; a set; a suit.

Sortnoun

Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.

Sortverb

To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.

Sortverb

To reduce to order from a confused state.

Sortverb

To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.

Sortverb

To choose from a number; to select; to cull.

Sortverb

To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.

Sortverb

To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.

Sortverb

To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.

Sortnoun

a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality;

Sortnoun

an approximate definition or example;

Sortnoun

a person of a particular character or nature;

Sortnoun

an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion;

Sortverb

examine in order to test suitability;

Sortverb

arrange or order by classes or categories;

Siftverb

To sieve or strain (something).

Siftverb

To separate or scatter (things) as if by sieving.

Siftverb

To examine (something) carefully.

Siftverb

(archaic or old-fashioned) To scrutinise (someone or something) carefully so as to find the truth.

Siftverb

To carefully go through a set of objects, or a collection of information, in order to find something.

Siftverb

To move data records up in memory to make space to insert further records.

Siftverb

To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

Siftverb

To separate or part as if with a sieve.

Siftverb

To examine critically or minutely; to scrutinize.

Siftverb

move as if through a sieve;

Siftverb

separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements;

Siftverb

check and sort carefully;

Siftverb

distinguish and separate out;