unsort
verbEtymology From un- + sort, apparently by confusion of unravel, untangle or similar and sort.
1
Nonstandard To sort out; to resolve.
- In his letter to Virginia's governor excerpted below, Rolfe tries to unsort the mixture of motives that led to his decision to marry Pocahantas.2003, Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, A Documentary History of Religion in America to 1877, page 54:
- I try to unsort this big tangle of things that all of a sudden I've tripped over.2008, Susan McGeown, Call Me Elle, page 48:
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To shuffle a data structure so that it is no longer sorted.
- And what if we want to unsort an array? The shuffle ( ) function uses PHP's random number generator to re-arrange the elements of an array randomly.1999, Jesus Castagnetto, Professional PHP Programming, page 162: