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Selecting vs Sorting - What's the difference?

selecting | sorting |

As verbs the difference between selecting and sorting

is that selecting is while sorting is .

As a noun sorting is

(senseid)ordering.

selecting

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    • sorting

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    • Noun

    (wikipedia sorting) (en noun)
  • (senseid)Ordering.
  • (senseid)Categorizing.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}

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