Arranged vs Sorted - What's the difference?
arranged | sorted |
(arrange)
To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 To put in order, to organize.
To plan; to prepare in advance.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.}}
(label) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
(sort)
Put into some order by sorting.
In good order, under control.
In possession of a sufficient supply, especially of narcotics.
A general expression of approval.
As verbs the difference between arranged and sorted
is that arranged is past tense of arrange while sorted is past tense of sort.As an adjective sorted is
put into some order by sorting.As an interjection sorted is
a general expression of approval.arranged
English
Verb
(head)arrange
English
Verb
(arrang)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeDerived terms
* arrangementsorted
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- a sorted list of numbers
- I have to get my life sorted .
- Sorted for E's & Wizz'' (''song and album by UK band )