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UK
/sˈɔːtɐ/
]
[ US /ˈsɔɹtɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɔɹtɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a machine for sorting things (such as punched cards or letters) into classes
- a clerk who sorts things (as letters at the post office)
How To Use sorter In A Sentence
- I s'pec 'it seem sorter funny ter you, boss, but dat w'ite 'oman done had lots er trouble; she done had bunnunce er trouble -- she sholy is! Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White
- By definition, it's a messy job for the sorters, and anything in a plastic bag goes straight to landfill.
- Sorters had to unscramble a moving target, while tests had to resist a moving arrow.
- German officials said Thursday the 21-year-old temporary letter sorter with the postal service has admitted targeting Americans when he opened fire with a handgun on a busload of 15 U.S. airmen at Frankfurt's airport on their way to deployment in Afghanistan, killing two and wounding two more. German airport shooting suspect recently radicalized
- He was sorter destituted and not a bit up-to-date. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2
- We still have an IBM card reader, card punch, a couple of 083 sorters, and a couple of 129 keypunches.
- This fabulous sorter is made of soft plush velour, waffle - weave, terry and canvas certified organic cotton.
- Bill sorter , which has fast been developing lately, is an optical , mechanical and electrical financial facility.
- A happy Garbage Project student sorter in 1973-the Project's first year - experiences the zen of garbology as she hand-sorts and records in excruciating detail the contents of a bag of household refuse placed out for one bi-weekly pickup in Tucson, AZ.
- My grandfather Amos Dewhirst, a woolsorter and part-time picture-framer from Oxenhope, opened his newsagents, stationers and tobacconists at 232, Oakworth Road, Keighley, in 1899.