Sorting and Fixing

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 act of putting something in working order again.
  • synonyms: repair, fix, fixture, mend, mending, reparation
• Restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place.
  • synonyms: fastener, fastening, holdfast
• The sterilization of an animal.
  • usage: "they took him to the vet for neutering"
  • synonyms: neutering, altering
• Histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body.
  • synonyms: fixation

verb

• Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken.
  • usage: "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"
  • synonyms: repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
• Cause to be firmly attached.
  • usage: "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man"
  • synonyms: fasten, fix, secure
• Decide upon or fix definitely.
  • usage: "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
  • synonyms: specify, set, determine, define, fix, limit
• Prepare for eating by applying heat.
  • usage: "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
  • synonyms: cook, fix, ready, make, prepare
• Take vengeance on or get even.
  • usage: "We'll get them"; "That'll fix him good"; "This time I got him"
  • synonyms: pay back, pay off, get, fix
• Set or place definitely.
  • usage: "Let's fix the date for the party"
  • synonyms: fix
• Kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study.
  • synonyms: fix
• Make fixed, stable or stationary.
  • usage: "let's fix the picture to the frame"
  • synonyms: fixate, fix
• Make infertile.
  • usage: "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"
  • synonyms: sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
• Influence an event or its outcome by illegal means.
  • usage: "fix a race"
  • synonyms: fix
• Put (something somewhere) firmly.
  • usage: "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"
  • synonyms: situate, fix, posit, deposit
• Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc.
  • usage: "Get the children ready for school"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
  • synonyms: fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set

• (n.) The act or process of making fixed.
• (n.) That which is fixed; a fixture.
• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Fix.
• (n.) Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments.