SORTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sorted mean? 

• SORTED (adjective)
  The adjective SORTED has 2 senses:

1. arranged according to size

2. arranged into groups

  Familiarity information: SORTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SORTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arranged according to size

Similar:

sized (having a specified size)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Arranged into groups

Synonyms:

grouped; sorted

Similar:

classified (arranged into classes)

 Context examples 

But I'll go as far with you as I dare go, and a step beyond, for I'll have my wig sorted by the captain or I'm mistaken!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Ubiquitylated membrane proteins, such as activated growth-factor receptors, are sorted into intraluminal vesicles and eventually end up in the lysosome lumen via multivesicular endosomes (MVEs).

(Endocytosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The receptor is sorted into transcytotic vesicles which are exocytosed at the apical surface.

(Basolateral Sorting Signal, NCI Thesaurus)

PKC phosphorylated receptors are sorted for recycling to the cell surface, and directed away from the late endosome and proteasome.

(EGF Receptor Downregulation by CBL Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Selection and deposition of individual cells of a particular phenotype from a mixed population into a separate tube or tissue culture plate by the use of a fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS) and fluorescently-labeled antibodies specific for surface molecules on the cells to be sorted.

(Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting, NCI Thesaurus)

I suppose, Miss Temple, the thread I bought at Lowton will do; it struck me that it would be just of the quality for the calico chemises, and I sorted the needles to match.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Martin, after a few instructions, sorted the great heaps of soiled clothes, while Joe started the masher and made up fresh supplies of soft- soap, compounded of biting chemicals that compelled him to swathe his mouth and nostrils and eyes in bath-towels till he resembled a mummy.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Depending on the various proteins that enter the endosome membrane, these cargoes are sorted to distinct destinations.

(Endocytosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)