sort
verb [ I or T ]
uk/sɔːt/ usto put a number of things in an order or to separate them into groups:
Documents are sorted and indexed.
sort sth by sth Customer records can be sorted by name or by postcode.
Phrasal verb
sort sth out
sort
noun [ C ]
IT uk/sɔːt/ usa computer instruction that organizes things into a particular order:
He's written a sort program for the database.