triage.
Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.
Meaning & usage
Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.
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).
A facility within a hospital that screens walk-in patients and determines which department or clinic to send them to. (See also triage center.)
The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.
A marshalling yard, classification yard.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree French trier Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -age Middle French -age French -age French triagebor. English triage Borrowed from French triage, from trier (“to sort”).
To subject to triage; to prioritize.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree French trier Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -age Middle French -age French -age French triagebor. English triage Borrowed from French triage, from trier (“to sort”).
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