TRIAGE

triage

(noun) sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

triage (countable and uncountable, plural triages)

Assessment or sorting according to quality.

(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).

(computing, by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.

That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.

Verb

triage (third-person singular simple present triages, present participle triaging, simple past and past participle triaged)

To assess or sort according to quality or some other aspect.

Anagrams

• Gaiter, aigret, gaiter, tirage, trigae

Source: Wiktionary



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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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