[がっしょうれんこう, gasshourenkou] (n) (See 合従, 連衡) alliance (of the Six Kingdoms against the Qin dynasty, and of individual Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty); (tactic of) making & breaking alliances (to benefit oneself as the occasion demands); resorting to alliances as a diplomatic expedient [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Sort \Sort\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sorted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Sorting}.]
1. To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions,
as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths
according to their colors; to sort wool or thread
according to its fineness.
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Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted
and sorted from one another. --Sir I.
Newton.
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2. To reduce to order from a confused state. --Hooker.
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3. To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
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Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients,
compared and sorted with insects. --Bacon.
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She sorts things present with things past. --Sir J.
Davies.
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4. To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
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That he may sort out a worthy spouse. --Chapman.
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I'll sort some other time to visit you. --Shak.
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5. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. [R.]
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I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sorting
n 1: an operation that segregates items into groups according to
a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery is
the process of sorting" [syn: {sort}, {sorting}]
2: the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or
categories [syn: {classification}, {categorization},
{categorisation}, {sorting}]
3: grouping by class or kind or size
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