Sorting and Assignment

noun

• An operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion.
  • usage: "the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting"
  • synonyms: sort
• The basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories.
  • synonyms: classification, categorization, categorisation
• Grouping by class or kind or size.

verb

• Examine in order to test suitability.
  • usage: "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
  • synonyms: screen, screen out, sieve, sort
• Arrange or order by classes or categories.
  • usage: "How would you classify these pottery shards-are they prehistoric"
  • synonyms: classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate

(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Sort.

(DoD) In counterdrug operations, the process involved in differentiating traffic which could be involved in drug trafficking from legitimate air traffic. See also counterdrug operations.

noun

• A duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces. )
  • usage: "hazardous duty"
  • synonyms: duty assignment
• The instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another.
• The act of distributing something to designated places or persons.
  • usage: "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"
  • synonyms: assigning
• Law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance.
  • synonyms: grant
• An undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor. )
• The act of putting a person into a non-elective position.
  • usage: "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
  • synonyms: appointment, designation, naming

• (n.) The writing by which an interest is transferred.
• (n.) An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
• (n.) The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.
• (n.) A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.

Transfer of any contractual agreement between two parties. One of the parties, the assignor, transfers its rights or obligations to another party, the assignee. If interests in assets of the assignor are assigned, the' assignment' transfers all or some of the rights of ownership to the assignee. If interests in obligations of the assignor are assigned, the assignor is totally or partially absolved from further performance. Lenders sometimes see leased property assigned from the original lessor to another party who then pledges them to the bank as collateral for a loan. For personal property collateral, a secured party may enter an assignment of its security interest into the public record by using a standard form called UCC-3.