unsort
unsort verb: to sort out; to resolve.
Verb
unsort (third-person singular simple present unsorts, present participle unsorting, simple past and past participle unsorted)
- To sort out; to resolve.
- In his letter to Virginia's governor excerpted below, Rolfe tries to unsort the mixture of motives that led to his decision to marry Pocahantas.2003, Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, A Documentary History of Religion in America to 1877, page 54
- I try to unsort this big tangle of things that all of a sudden I've tripped over.2008, Susan McGeown, Call Me Elle, page 48
- To shuffle a data structure so that it is no longer sorted.
- And what if we want to unsort an array? The shuffle ( ) function uses PHP's random number generator to re-arrange the elements of an array randomly.1999, Jesus Castagnetto, Professional PHP Programming, page 162
Forms of unsort
| third-person singular present | unsorts |
|---|---|
| present participle | unsorting |
| past participle | unsorted |
| past | unsorted |
Origin of unsort
From un- + sort, apparently by confusion of unravel, untangle or similar and sort.
Questions about unsort
- What does unsort mean?
- Unsort means to sort out; to resolve.
- What part of speech is unsort?
- Unsort is a verb.
- What is the past tense of unsort?
- The past tense of unsort is unsorted.
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