Split vs Sort - What's the difference?
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See (verb).
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(algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
A crack or longitudinal fissure.
A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
(leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
The acrobatic feat of spreading the legs flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor.
(baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
(bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliter or 1/4 quarter of a standard .75 liter bottle. Commercially comparable to 1/20th (US) gallon, which is 1/2 of a fifth.
A bottle of wine containing 0.375 liters, 1/2 the volume of a standard .75 liter bottle; a demi.
(athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate point(s) in a race.
(construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
(gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
(music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
(ergative) Of something solid, to divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
* (Robert Boyle) (1627-1691)
To share; to divide.
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to separate or break up.
To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
* Shakespeare
To burst out laughing.
* Alexander Pope
(slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
(sports) In athletics (esp. baseball), when both teams involved in a doubleheader each win one game and lose another game.
(split)
A general type.
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, title= 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.
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*: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.
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(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.
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An act of sorting.
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(lb) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
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(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)
(senseid)To separate according to certain criteria.
* Isaac Newton
(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
* Sir J. Davies
To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
* Woodward
* Francis Bacon
To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
* Francis Bacon
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
* Chapman
* Shakespeare
As a proper noun split
is a port city in croatia.As a noun sort is
kind, type, sort or sort can be fate, destiny, chance.split
English
Adjective
(split exact sequence) (-)- Republicans appear split on the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's economic recovery plan.
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Derived terms
* split-shotNoun
(en noun)- He’s got a nasty split .
- In the 3000m race, his 800m split was 1:45.32
Verb
- a huge vessel of exceeding hard marble split asunder by congealed water
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- The ship splits on the rock.
- Each had a gravity would make you split .
- (Thackeray)
Derived terms
* side-splitting * split up (verb )sort
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m) (= Dutch (m), German (m), Danish (m), Swedish (m)), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.
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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 alsoDerived 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 * timsortEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another.
- Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects.
- She sorts things present with things past.
- Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals.
- The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company.
- They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations.
- I cannot tell ye precisely how they sorted .
- I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience.
- that he may sort out a worthy spouse
- I'll sort some other time to visit you.