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sorted, ppl. a.|ˈsɔːtɪd|
[f. sort v.1 Cf. ill-sorted a.]
1. Picked, chosen, selected.
1547Cal. Pat. Rolls Irel. I. (1861) 154 A convenient number of sorted men for the relief of the Lord Deputy. 1632Heywood 2nd Pt. Iron Age Ded., If you persist in the same opinion, when you shall spare some sorted houres to heare it read. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 812 The pure ore, or at least the very rich portion, called the sorted mine. 1844Mrs. Browning Vis. Poets cxcv, A company came up the aisle With measured step and sorted smile.
2. Assorted; arranged, classified. Also sorted-out.
1697Dryden Virg. Past. Pref. (1721) I. 93 A curious Parterre of sorted Flowers. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 167 A sorted cargo of goods. 1784Cowper Task iii. 634 Grateful mixture of well-match'd And sorted hues. 1891Daily News 2 Mar. 2/2 The sorted papers are thrown into different hoppers. 1927Haldane & Huxley Animal Biol. ii. 64 Each sorted-out pack will be complete in having one card of each kind.
3. Physical Geogr. Said of shapes and other features displayed on patterned ground, where the stones forming the patterns are distributed in a way suggesting their having been sorted according to size.
1950A. L. Washburn in Rev. Canad. de Géogr. IV. 9 In order to standardize the terminology for the purpose of this paper, the broad classification of patterned ground indicated below has been adopted... Patterns on horizontal ground. Sorted circles. Sorted polygons... Patterns on sloping ground. Sorted stripes. Ibid. 13 The stones of sorted stripes range in size from gravel in the narrow stripes to boulders in the largest ones. 1956― in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. LXVII. 830/1 A sorted net is patterned ground whose mesh is intermediate between that of a sorted circle and a sorted polygon and has a sorted appearance commonly due to a border of stones surrounding finer material. 1968R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 374/2 In contrast to circles, sorted polygons..apparently never develop singly. 1977A. Hallam Planet Earth 89 The forces generated by freezing and thawing tend to segregate particles of different grain size in the soil to produce sorted polygons, whose margins are outlined by the coarser soil fragments.
▸ a. Chiefly Brit. slang. Of a state of affairs, etc.: fixed, settled, secure; arranged, prepared, dealt with. Chiefly used predicatively and (esp. in earlier use) freq. indistinguishable from the past participle of the passive verb (cf. sort v.1 16a(e)). Also as int., esp. used to express assent to a proposal, readiness to act, or to mark the satisfactory conclusion of a transaction.
This sense is perh. influenced by a British Army slang use of the verb meaning ‘to attack fiercely, to shoot to pieces’ (see quot. 1945).In quot. 1982 prob. more closely related to sort v.1 11f.
[1945J. D'Arcy-Dawson European Victory viii. 151 We went into Div. H.Q., which had been well and truly sorted.] 1982Washington Post (Nexis) 7 Sept. d2 But with insurance money and investments, I'm set financially and my life is pretty well sorted. 1986T. Barling Smoke ix. 178 ‘And your social commitments in the stand.’ ‘They're well sorted.’ 1995Independent (Nexis) 29 July 8 They could be sensible with their life, financially sorted at 25, for example. 1997C. Higson et al. Fast Show: Ser. 3 (BBC TV script for Darlington filming, 27 July–10 Aug.) 130 Simon: Right? Lyndsay: Nice one! Simon: It's gripped. Lyndsay: Sorted! 1998J. Baker in S. Champion & D. Scannell Shenanigans (1999) iv. 70 It's sorted. You can go in. 1999R. T. Davies Queer as Folk: Scripts 46 On the house! Sorted!
b. Brit. slang. Esp. of a person: self-assured, emotionally well-balanced; streetwise, ‘cool’.
1991New Musical Express 31 Aug. 8/2 Hey skins, get 90's..and get sorted! 1993T. Hawkins Pepper xiv. 268 Thank you so much for replying. You seem really sorted. 1995P. Redmond Hollyoaks (Mersey TV transmission script) Episode 5. 28 Sorted music—none of that bogus Jungle crap. 1997New Woman May 69/1 When you live on your own you think you're a pretty sorted kind of bloke. 1998Independent 20 Apr. ii. 1/1 You're a fully-fledged, sorted Nineties person. 2000Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 30 Dec. 13 Padraig Mallan, droll and Irish, perhaps the most sorted of all.
c. Brit. slang. Of a person: supplied with or under the influence of illicit drugs, particularly those associated with the U.K. club subculture.
1991Independent 23 Dec. 5/2 Are you sorted? It's good stuff, it'll keep you going all night. 1995N. Blincoe Acid Casuals i. 4 Later, standing swaying in her bedroom, Yen said that he was sorted. 1995J. Cocker (song, perf. ‘Pulp’) (title) Sorted for E's & Wizz. 1998in M. Harrison High Society 173 There was a little snap bag in my pocket with a quarter of hash, a couple of Es, a wrap and a couple of trips... Sorted, as they say. |