(idiomatic) Irritable or somewhat unwell, with vague medical symptoms. / (printing, dated) With some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font.

(transitive) To clarify by reviewing mentally. / (transitive) To arrange. / (transitive) To fix, as a problem.

(advertising) A research tool used to assess the effectiveness of advertising by asking consumers to select the pictures that best describe a brand.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sort out

(geology) A form of graded bedding that occurs at the bottom of a body of water. The principle says that smaller colloids (particles) settle farther in the strata while larger particles settle closer to the source of water.

present participle of sort out

plural of copy sort

(advertising) An advertising research technique that assesses individual phrases and verbal ideas in a commercial by the audience's levels of attention or recall, relevance, and feelings.

(computing) Synonym of mergesort

plural of merge sort