sort out
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
arrange or order by classes or categories
How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?
Types & categories
- categorize hypernym
- unitize hyponym
- catalogue hyponym
- isolate hyponym
- refer hyponym
- reclassify hyponym
- size hyponym
- dichotomize hyponym
- stereotype hyponym
- group hyponym
- grade hyponym
- number hyponym
Related & opposite
- classification derivation
- sorting derivation
- sorter derivation
- categorization derivation
- sort derivation
- categorization derivation
- social class derivation
- class derivation
- class derivation
- class derivation
- classifier derivation
- sorter derivation
- sorting derivation
- classificatory derivation
- compare entails
Sense 2 verb
make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
Could you clarify these remarks?
Types & categories
- clear up hypernym
Related & opposite
- clearness derivation
- clarification derivation
- elucidation derivation
- lucidity derivation
- clarifying derivation
Sense 3 verb
punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience
The teacher disciplined the pupils rather frequently
Types & categories
- punish hypernym
Related & opposite
- discipline derivation
- corrigible derivation
- corrective derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | classification |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sorting |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sorter |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | categorization |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sort |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | categorization |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | social class |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | class |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | class |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | class |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | classifier |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sorter |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sorting |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | classificatory |
| 1 | entails | Related & opposite | compare |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | categorize |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | unitize |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | catalogue |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | isolate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | refer |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | reclassify |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | size |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dichotomize |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | stereotype |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | group |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | grade |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | number |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | clearness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | clarification |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | elucidation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | lucidity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | clarifying |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | clear up |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | discipline |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | corrigible |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | corrective |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | punish |