list vs sort

list

verb
  • To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat. 

  • To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border. 

  • To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed. 

  • To create or recite a list. 

  • To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of. 

  • To plough and plant with a lister. 

  • To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list. 

  • To place in listings. 

  • To listen to. 

  • To listen. 

  • To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe. 

  • To cause (something) to tilt to one side. 

  • To tilt to one side. 

noun
  • Material used for cloth selvage. 

  • A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank. 

  • A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power. 

  • A little square moulding; a fillet or listel. 

  • The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated. 

  • A tilt to a building. 

  • The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments. 

  • The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle. 

  • A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself. 

  • A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker. 

  • A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth. 

  • A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items. 

sort

verb
  • To attack physically. 

  • To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree. 

  • To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize. 

  • To fix (a problem) or handle (a task). 

  • To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically. 

  • To geld. 

  • To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts. 

  • To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. 

noun
  • An act of sorting. 

  • A type. 

  • An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence. 

  • A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style. 

  • Manner; form of being or acting. 

  • A general type. 

  • A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.). 

  • A good-looking woman. 

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