triage — meaning in English

English meaning

• sort noun A particular type or kind of something.
• triage noun The process of sorting people or things by urgency or importance to decide what gets attention first.

Senses

triage is used for these senses in English:

• sort An act of sorting.
• triage (medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).

sort — full definition

1. noun A particular type or kind of something.
2. verb To arrange items into groups or a particular order, based on some shared quality.
3. verb Informal: to fix a problem or deal with a task.

triage — full definition

1. noun The process of sorting people or things by urgency or importance to decide what gets attention first.
2. verb To sort or prioritize by urgency.

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