Sorting and Filing

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 entering of a legal document into the public record.
  • usage: "he filed a complaint"; "he filed his tax return"
• A fragment rubbed off by the use of a file.
• The act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object. )
• Preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc..
  • usage: "I have some filing to do"

verb

• Record in a public office or in a court of law.
  • usage: "file for divorce"; "file a complaint"
  • synonyms: file, register
• Smooth with a file.
  • usage: "file one's fingernails"
  • synonyms: file
• Proceed in line.
  • usage: "The students filed into the classroom"
  • synonyms: file
• File a formal charge against.
  • usage: "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"
  • synonyms: charge, lodge, file
• Place in a container for keeping records.
  • usage: "File these bills, please"
  • synonyms: file, file away

• (n.) A fragment or particle rubbed off by the act of filing; as, iron filings.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of File.