Sort-out Definition

verb

To clarify by reviewing mentally.

It's a bit confused at the moment, I'll try to sort it out later.
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To arrange.

Could you call Dave and sort out a meeting for tomorrow?
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To fix, as a problem.

The computer won't let me delete that file; could you sort it out?
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To organise or separate into groups, as a collection of items, so as to make tidy.

Could you sort out your wardrobe and put the clothes you no longer use in one pile to give away and another to throw away?
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To separate from the remainder of a group; often construed with from.

We need to sort out the problems we can solve from the ones we can't.
They've already sorted out the students in group A, so we just need to worry about groups B and C.
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Sort-out Sentence Examples

  • Next problem to sort out was the torque converter.

  • The hydrated lime, after being passed through a fine screen to sort out any lumps unaffected by the water, is ready for concrete making, and if not required at once should be stored in a dry place.

  • This alone will do wonders to sort out your brain fog by midday.

  • There were things he still needed to sort out and Carmen was a distraction – a delightful one for sure, but a distraction all the same.

  • Henceforth even the mediocre scholar had a body of technical rules by which to sort out the vast mass of apocrypha in medieval documentary sources.

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Words Starting With

SSOSOR

Words Ending With

TUTOUT

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Words Starting With S and Ending With T

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With S8 Letter Words Ending With T