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sorter

/sɔː.tə/

sorter noun: a person employed to sort. Also the pronunciation spelling of sorta.

Noun

sorter (plural sorters)

  1. A person employed to sort.
    • But soon one notices, first in ones and twos, and then in larger groups, men who are very much alive at this hour in the morning, the sorters for the Caledonian, and Edinburgh sections of the "Down Special"; mail is piled high on the platforms, and the postal men glance occasionally towards the...1948 May and June, O. S. Nock, “Scottish Night Mails of the L.M.S.R.—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 157
  2. A machine or algorithm that performs sorting.

Also used as

sorter is also the pronunciation spelling of sorta.

Forms of sorter

pluralsorters

Origin of sorter

From sort + -er.

Words formed from sorter

Phrases with sorter

Words that rhyme with sorter

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Questions about sorter

What does sorter mean?
Sorter means a person employed to sort.
What part of speech is sorter?
Sorter is a noun.
How do you pronounce sorter?
Sorter is pronounced /sɔː.tə/.
What is the plural of sorter?
The plural of sorter is sorters.

Words near sorter in the dictionary

  1. sorted oneself out
  2. sorted out
  3. sorted the wheat from the chaff
  4. sorted through
  5. sortedness
  6. sorter
  7. sorters
  8. sortes
  9. sorteth
  10. sortie
  11. sortie out

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