Sorting and Composing

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

• The spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole.
  • usage: "harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art"
  • synonyms: composition
• Musical creation.
  • synonyms: composition

verb

• Form the substance of.
  • usage: "Greed and ambition composed his personality"
  • synonyms: compose
• Write music.
  • usage: "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
  • synonyms: compose, write
• Produce a literary work.
  • usage: "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
  • synonyms: write, compose, pen, indite
• Put together out of existing material.
  • usage: "compile a list"
  • synonyms: compose, compile
• Calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet.
  • usage: "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult"
  • synonyms: compose
• Make up plans or basic details for.
  • usage: "frame a policy"
  • synonyms: frame, compose, draw up

• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Compose.
• (a.) Pertaining to or used in, composition.
• (a.) Tending to compose or soothe.