triage vs sorting

triage and sorting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
triage	Yes	No	No	No
sorting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sorting is a hypernym of triage; that is, sorting is a word with a broader meaning than triage:

triage: sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food
sorting: grouping by class or kind or size

triage (noun)	sorting (noun)
sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food	grouping by class or kind or size
	the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
	an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion