What's the difference between categorise and sort?

Categorise


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Categorisation by degree of hyperactivity produced groups that differed in terms of variables that were independent of the diagnostic criteria.
  • (2) Rats selected according to turn preference in an open field were categorised as showing left or right hemispheric dominance (turning to right or left respectively).
  • (3) "I find it disturbing that a political party with far-right links and extreme views is keeping lists of people categorised by ethnicity.
  • (4) Between 1986 and 1989, 2268 new patients with bleeding were categorised by symptom grouping and entered into programmes of investigation and management.
  • (5) The epithelial salivary gland tumours have for many years been categorised according to the 1972 World Health Organisation (WHO) classification.
  • (6) The categorisation of lymphosarcomas with immune markers has enriched the prognostic value of W.H.O.
  • (7) However, Iran is determined that UN sanctions should also be lifted, because the security council resolutions underlying them categorise the nuclear programme as illegal and a threat to international peace and security.
  • (8) Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian She says she understands why some are either anxious or actively hostile – and, just to underline the fact that what people say about migration often defies easy categorisation, lays some blame on people from eastern Europe .
  • (9) We studied 34 routine medico-legal cases categorising them into one of four diagnostic groups.
  • (10) "My feeling is that nobody really makes those kind of cult movies any more that are outside of the box and defy categorisation," he says.
  • (11) Can children with SLI be categorised as having expressive versus receptive language problems?
  • (12) An investigation of the categorisation of subjective disappearances showed that, although the stability of pattern components was not determined by reporting these singly or in conjunction, the disappearances of the whole pattern were significantly increased by reporting only these as opposed to reporting disappearances of each component.
  • (13) The use of the WHO approach for the categorisation of childhood tuberculosis cases is recommended for both clinical and epidemiological purposes.
  • (14) Qualitative data gathered in the study was transcribed and categorised into themes.
  • (15) These 'super-enumeration' districts were then categorised into 15 cluster types which highlighted the major social characteristics of the areas within Southampton.
  • (16) When untransformed egg count data were categorised as low, moderate and high, the 2 methods were in agreement for 53 of the 61 groups.
  • (17) "I spent 20 years politely answering the question, 'How do you feel when people categorise you as a gay writer?'
  • (18) Factor analysis of three published studies of 93, 62 and 52 schizophrenic patients and a large pooled sample showed that more than two distinct dimensions are required to categorise symptoms in schizophrenia.
  • (19) Documents seen by the Guardian show how millions of people currently in receipt of some sort of benefit will be categorised into seven classes including, "too sick to work", "too committed to work", a category including lone parents, and those deemed to be "not working enough".
  • (20) Jolie said part of the appeal of the film was the updated morals of the fairytale, which did not categorise life into simply good and evil – a message she said she was keen to pass on to her own children.

Sort


Definition:

  • (n.) Chance; lot; destiny.
  • (n.) A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.
  • (n.) Manner; form of being or acting.
  • (n.) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
  • (n.) A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
  • (n.) A pair; a set; a suit.
  • (n.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
  • (v. t.) To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.
  • (v. t.) To reduce to order from a confused state.
  • (v. t.) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
  • (v. t.) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
  • (v. t.) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
  • (v. i.) To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
  • (v. i.) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Translation: 'We do less, you get yourself sorted.'"
  • (2) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
  • (3) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
  • (4) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
  • (5) After induction the aIL2r positive and negative cell subpopulations were sorted and analyzed separately for morphology, lineage specific cell surface markers, and clonogenic cell numbers.
  • (6) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
  • (7) Luminal and myoepithelial cells have been separated from normal adult human breast epithelium using fluorescence activated cell sorting.
  • (8) Those sort of year-to-year comparisons can be helpful to visualise changes in the market landscape, but in fast-changing markets it's not enough just to quote a single number.
  • (9) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (10) But under Comey’s FBI, the agency has continued to disregard the justice department’s legal opinion, and to this day, demands tech companies hand it all sorts of data under due-process free National Security Letters.
  • (11) By mixing old and young slg- BM cells, we found that, in general, this reduction was not caused by a suppressive effect of T cells or of any other cells, but rather to lack of some sort of supportive cell or factor in the aged BM.
  • (12) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
  • (13) On the other hand, unsorted cells and non-CD3+Leu7+ sorted cells either enhance responses or produce less than 10% suppression under the same conditions.
  • (14) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.
  • (15) These results suggest that besides the maternal leucocytes, sufficient trophoblast nucleated fetal cells can be obtained using cell enrichment by sorting.
  • (16) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
  • (17) How often do we use the term depressed to mean disappointed, mildly bummed out or sort of blue?
  • (18) "The sort of people they do business with do not want their deals in the spotlight."
  • (19) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (20) I’m perfectly aware of the import of your question, and what we have done, very firmly for all sorts of good reasons, since September 2013, is not comment on operational matters because every time we comment on operational matters we give information to our enemies,” he said.