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SORTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grouping by class or kind or size
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("sorting" is a kind of...):
grouping (the activity of putting things together in groups)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sorting"):
triage (sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food)
separation (sorting one thing from others)
Derivation:
sort (arrange or order by classes or categories)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
Synonyms:
categorisation; categorization; classification; sorting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("sorting" is a kind of...):
basic cognitive process (cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sorting"):
coordination (being of coordinate importance, rank, or degree)
appraisal; assessment (the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth)
ascription; attribution (assigning to a cause or source)
ascription; attribution (assigning some quality or character to a person or thing)
cross-classification; cross-division (classification according to more than one attribute at the same time)
subsumption (incorporating something under a more general category)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
Example:
the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting
Synonyms:
sort; sorting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("sorting" is a kind of...):
operation ((computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction))
Derivation:
sort (arrange or order by classes or categories)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb sort
Context examples:
This allele, which encodes nascent polypeptide-associated complex subunit alpha protein, is involved in the regulation of protein sorting.
(NACA wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Beth was sorting the cones that lay thick under the hemlock near by, for she made pretty things with them.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Target proteins are monoubiquitinated on one or more lysine residues, which serve as a signal for intracellular sorting as well as endocytosis of cell-surface proteins.
(Monoubiquitination, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment protein 3, may play a role in the mediation of both protein sorting and the cellular response to misfolded proteins.
(ERGIC3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
A technique for counting, examining and sorting microscopic particles suspended in a stream of fluid.
(Flow cytometry, NCI Thesaurus)
Cell surface sorting of the signal-transducing APP depends on a cytoplasmic tyrosine-based basolateral sorting signal (BaSS) sequence to which APPBP2 specifically binds.
(Amyloid Beta Precursor Protein-Binding Protein 2, NCI Thesaurus)
NPXY is required for binding protein PID domains, endocytosis, and BaSS sorting.
(Amyloid Beta A4 Protein Precursor, NCI Thesaurus)
Sorting out what happens on the Moon could also help researchers understand the sources of water and its long-term storage on other rocky bodies throughout the solar system.
(On Second Thought, the Moon's Water May Be Widespread and Immobile, NASA)
The 103 amino acid cytoplasmic domain of the receptor contains several sorting signals.
(Basolateral Sorting Signal, NCI Thesaurus)
Tissue-specific cadherin glycoproteins are responsible for homophilic calcium-dependent cell-cell adhesion likely involved in cell type sorting during morphogenesis, histogenesis, and regeneration.
(Cadherin Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
