Assortment vs Triage - What's the difference?
assortment | triage |
A collection of varying but related items.
Assessment or sorting according to quality.
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(medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
(computing, by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
To assess or sort according to quality or some other aspect.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 01, author=Linda Diebel, title=Existential crises and a rage to save the Liberals, work=Toronto Star
, passage=Then, over 2001 and '02, he laid off 150 employees at MGI Software, a company he'd first "triaged " as a consultant for NPV Associates with his partner and fellow UCC alumnus Henry Eaton, before stepping in as CEO. Firing 30 per cent of the work force was necessary to save the company, insists NPV principal partner Eaton. }}
As nouns the difference between assortment and triage
is that assortment is a collection of varying but related items while triage is assessment or sorting according to quality.As a verb triage is
to assess or sort according to quality or some other aspect.assortment
English
Noun
(en noun)- This box has an assortment of chocolates, there's a picture on the cover so you know which is which.
Synonyms
* diversity, Whitman's sampler * See alsotriage
English
(wikipedia triage)Noun
(-)- [Mike Davis] notes that the 'late capitalist triage of humanity' has 'already taken place'.
Verb
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