sorter
3
2.1
- noun
- /ˈsɔːrtər/
:
clasificador
- I'm the best sorter in here.
- four sorters
- number of sorters
Examples
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An evaluation of the system from December 1998 to April 1999 led to better trained sorters and improved equipment performance.
Academic text (1999) -
Mary and Wendy, two of our best sorters.
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Yeah, I'm the fastest sorter there.
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A contract for school delivery was negotiated with UPS to deliver books from the sorter facility to each of the participating schools.
Academic text (2014) -
In order to accommodate the large traffic of books, the book sorter now runs an automatic "batch checkout" of all the books going to schools.
Academic text (2014) -
Their fathers were once engineers and lawyers, but now they are sorters and packers at UPS.
Fiction book (2000) -
Working alongside the sorters as the packages come in, Chuck points out how to organize the inflow.
Fiction book (2000) -
Recyclables and large contaminants are pulled from mixed residential refuse by eight sorters.
Academic text (1996) -
With everything loose on the conveyor, sorters in this first phase remove reusable items such as clothing, utensils, and toys.
Academic text (1996) -
As a mail sorter, she quickly arranged the letters by size and destination.
Synonyms
1
4.9
A person who organizes books and other items in a library by subject and number
1
2.8
A person who sorts and handles mail in an office or post office
1
7.9
A person who sorts material by quality in a factory
A person or machine that sorts things into groups
A person who arranges things into groups
A person who arranges things neatly like papers or ideas
A person or device that puts things in order
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sorter comes from the simple word sort, which originally meant 'a kind' and later 'to divide into kinds', plus the ending -er that means 'one who'. So a sorter is 'one who puts things into groups', like a person who sorts mail or parcels.