Sort vs Standing - What's the difference?

In british terms the difference between sort and standing

is that sort is (fix a problem) To fix a problem, to handle a task; to sort out while standing is room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles.

As nouns the difference between sort and standing

is that sort is a general type while standing is position or reputation in society or a profession: "He does not have much of a standing as a chemist".

As verbs the difference between sort and standing

is that sort is (separate according to certain criteria) To separate according to certain criteria while standing is present participle of lang=en; in the process of coming to an upright position.

As an adjective standing is

erect, not cut down.

sort

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m) (= Dutch (m), German (m), Danish (m), Swedish (m)), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A general type.

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Manner; form of being or acting.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:Which for my part I covet to perform, / In sort as through the world I did proclaim.

*(Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)

*:Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:I'll deceive you in another sort .

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:To Adam in what sort / Shall I appear?

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style.

*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

(lb) Condition above the vulgar; rank.

:(Shakespeare)

(lb) Group, company.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:a sort of shepherds

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:a sort of doves

*(Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)

*:a sort of rogues

*(George Chapman) (1559-1634)

*:A boy, a child, and we a sort of us, / Vowed against his voyage.

(lb) A person.

An act of sorting.

(lb) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.

(lb) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.

(lb) Chance; lot; destiny.

*(William Shakespeare)

*:Let blockish Ajax draw / The sort to fight with Hector.

(lb) A pair; a set; a suit.

:(Johnson)

Quotations

* (English Citations of "sort")

Synonyms

* (type) genre, genus, kind, type, variety * (person) character, individual, person, type * (act of sorting) sort-out * (in computing) sort algorithm, sorting algorithm * (typography) glyph, type * See also

Derived terms

* all sorts * allsorts * in sort * out of sorts * sort of * sort out * sorta * bead sort * binary tree sort * blort sort * bogo-sort * bozo sort * bubble sort * bucket sort * cocktail sort * comb sort * counting sort * distribution sort * drunk man sort * gnome sort * heapsort * insertion sort * in-place sort * insertion sort * introsort * introspective sort * library sort * merge sort * mergesort * monkey sort * pigeonhole sort * quicksort * radix sort * selection sort * shell sort * smoothsort * stochastic sort * stupid sort * stooge sort * timsort

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Verb

(en verb)

(senseid)To separate according to certain criteria.

* Isaac Newton

Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another.

(senseid)To arrange into some order, especially numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.

(senseid)(British) To fix a problem, to handle a task; to sort out.

To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.

* Francis Bacon

Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects.

* Sir J. Davies

She sorts things present with things past.

To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.

* Woodward

Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals.

* Francis Bacon

The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company.

To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.

* Francis Bacon

They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations.

* Sir Walter Scott

I cannot tell ye precisely how they sorted .

(obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.

* Shakespeare

I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience.

(obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.

* Chapman

that he may sort out a worthy spouse

* Shakespeare

I'll sort some other time to visit you.

Usage notes

In British sense “to fix a problem”, often used in the form “I’ll get you sorted,” or “Now that’s sorted,” – in American usage (sort out) is used instead.

Synonyms

* (separate according to certain criteria) categorise/categorize, class, classify, group * (arrange into some sort of order) order, rank

Derived terms

* sorted * sorting * sort out

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standing

English

Verb

(head)

; in the process of coming to an upright position.

* 1991 ,

So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before'' or ''after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?

Adjective

(-)

Erect, not cut down.

Performed from an erect position.

standing ovation

Remaining in force or status.

standing committee

Stagnant; not moving or flowing.

standing water

Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting.

a standing colour

Not movable; fixed.

a standing bed, distinguished from a trundle-bed

the standing rigging of a ship

Translations

(upright) * German: (trans-mid) * Spanish: (trans-bottom) (permanent) * German: (trans-mid) * Spanish: (trans-bottom) (water) * German: (trans-mid) * Spanish: (trans-bottom)

Derived terms

* standing joke * standing order * standing ovation * standing seam * standing wave

Antonyms

* (stagnant) moving, working (committees )

Noun

(en noun)

Position or reputation in society or a profession: "He does not have much of a standing as a chemist ".

Duration.

a member of long standing

The act of a person who stands, or a place where someone stands.

I will provide you a good standing to see his entry. — Francis Bacon.

I think in deep mire, where there is no standing . — Psalms lxix. 2.

(sports) The position of a team in a league or of a player in a list: "After their last win, their standing went up three places ".

(British) room in which to park a vehicle or vehicles

* 1992 , P.D. James, The Children of Men , page 28:

"There was no garage at Lathbury Road, but we had standing for two cars in front of the house."

* 2000 , Bob Breen, Mission Accomplished, East Timor , page 149:

"The engineering crisis boiled down to roads, hard standing , and waste."

(legal) The right of a party to bring a legal action, based on the relationship between that party and the matter to which the action relates.

He may be insulting, a miserable rotter and a fool, but unless he slanders or libels you, or damages your property, you do not have standing to sue him.

Derived terms

* class standing * hard standing * good standing

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