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alphabetize

verb

Etymology

From alphabet(ical) + -ize.

  1. derived from ἀλφάβητος
  2. derived from alphabētum
  3. inherited from alphabete
  4. suffixed as alphabetize — “alphabet + ize”

Definitions

  1. To arrange words or items in order of the first (and then subsequent) letters as they…

    To arrange words or items in order of the first (and then subsequent) letters as they occur in the alphabet.

    • It was almost impossible to locate specific books in the library until we had alphabetized them by the authors' surnames.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for alphabetize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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