English word triage comes from Old French trier, and later French trier (To grade; to calibrate. To sort, to sort out.)
Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
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trier | Old French (fro) | (legal) to try (in court). To choose; to select. To find. To pull. To sort. To verify; to make sure of. |
trier | French (fr) | To grade; to calibrate. To sort, to sort out. |
triage | French (fr) | |
triage | English (en) | To assess or sort according to quality or some other aspect. (computing, by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.. (medicine) 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).. Assessment or sorting according to quality.. That which is picked out, [...] |