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Definition of Sortable
1. a. Capable of being sorted.
Definition of Sortable
1. Adjective. (obsolete) Suitable; proper, appropriate. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹
2. Adjective. That can be sorted. (defdate from 20th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sortable
1. sort [adj] - See also: sort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sortable
Literary usage of Sortable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Staffordshire Potteries; and the Rise and Progress of the by Simeon Shaw (1900)
"sortable Blue Flower'd, Best Is. lOd. seconds Is. 6d. No sortable under 8d.
nor Cups and Saucers under 6d. To allow no more than 5 per cent for Breakage, ..."
2. On English Adjectives in -able: With Special Reference to Reliable by Fitzedward Hall (1877)
"2 This sortable is, I apprehend, to be deduced from our old verb neuter sort,
... The French sortable, which has the same signification, is taken to be ..."
3. The History of Glasgow by John M'Ure (1830)
"It is very probable indeed, that some things cannot be bad here so well as from
England, so as to make out such a sortable cargo as the Virginia merchants ..."
4. Rob Roy by Walter Scott, David Henry Montgomery (1894)
"Buccaneers: pirates, or piratical adventurers, who combined to rob Spanish colonies
in the 17th and 18th centuries. sortable: suitable or assorted. ..."
5. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1915)
"It is a convenient place to procure sortable cargoes which are necessary in the
trade to certain parts. Special economies are developed by the rise of ..."
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