Crossword-Solution: SORTING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sorting | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Sort |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SORTING | anagram | STORING, TRIGONS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SORTING (5)
Liddy held up her hands and arms, coated with dust from the rubbish they were sorting, and looked imploringly at her mistress.
Techspeak for a particular sorting technique in which pairs of adjacent values in the list to be sorted are compared and interchanged if they are out of order; thus, list entries `bubble upward' in the list until they bump into one with a lower sort value.
Esmeralda, the Negress, was busy sorting her mistress’ baggage from the pile of bales and boxes beside the cabin, and Miss Porter had turned away to follow Clayton, when something caused her to turn again toward the sailor.
Twenty or so of the boys were still in the dormitories, working under Percy Witherspoon to save clothing and furniture, and the older girls were sorting over bushels of shoes and trying to fit them to the little ones, who were running about underfoot and wailing dismally.
After that she continued to sit at the table, sorting her papers and writing, till the intense silence of the house reminded her of the lateness of the hour.
Quotes with SORTING (3)
The middle class and upper middle class are highly attached to the institution of school explicitly as a sorting mechanism, as a way of justifying privileges of which middle-class members are already central beneficiaries. These critics suggest that the entire notion of schools as meritocracies actually reifies and reinforces class privilege--making those whom school rewards (those who already have a lot of benefits) feel they deserve the privileges they have.
All I do know is that as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier... much heavier. With each passing year, the price of our refusing to do that sorting rises higher and higher.
For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1986–2024).