triage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
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railways
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Etymology: From French triage, from trier (“to sort”).
Inflected forms:
form: triages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: triages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: triaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: triaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: triaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Let us think of triage, and remember the word's origins. It began with French wool growers in the eighteenth century, but its most illuminating use comes from eighteenth century coffee bean growers, who sorted their beans into best, middling, and broken. The last category came to be known as 'triage coffee.' In war we attend to the most seriously wounded first, which is how most of [us] understand the word today. […] Therefore to protect the best and the middling, we must sell off our 'triage coffee.'
[Mike Davis] notes that the 'late capitalist triage of humanity' has 'already taken place'.
gloss: The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A facility within a hospital that screens walk-in patients and determines which department or clinic to send them to. (See also triage center.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I knew where most of the medical supplies were kept. I went to triage. The room was chaos.
Triage was busy and noisy, and suddenly I had no energy.
She was told to hydrate and try some Tylenol and if it got worse, she was recommended to go to triage for evaluation.
gloss: The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A marshalling yard, classification yard.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: Similarly, any group of sidings is known to army railway personnel as a "triage". This word is derived from the French verb trier, which means literally "to sort," and hence "triage" has become the common army expression for a marshalling yard.
gloss: To subject to triage; to prioritize.
pos: verb
examples: Then, over 2001 and '02, he laid off 150 employees at MGI Software, a company he'd first "triaged" as a consultant for NPV Associates with his partner and fellow UCC alumnus Henry Eaton, before stepping in as CEO. Firing 30 per cent of the work force was necessary to save the company, insists NPV principal partner Eaton.
With the ambulance service the calls are triaged, so your response time can be anything from six minutes for a life-threatening call to an hour and a half for a broken limb.
I flipped from the calendar app to the email app and logged in to view Cooper's. The unreads were staggering; I'd have to triage them later.
For three months I was trained to chat with people who might be thinking of suicide. I learned how to triage them, and what words must be avoided at all costs.
Derived words: e-triage
overtriage
pretriage
retriage
teletriage
triage center
triager
undertriage
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