1. (n.)sort a particular kind, class, or group; category: two sorts of people—rich and poor.
2. sort character, quality, or nature: friends of a nice sort.
3. sort an example of something that is undistinguished: He is a sort of poet.
4. sort manner, fashion, or way.
5. sort Print.
6. sort any of the individual characters making up a font of type.
7. sort an instance of sorting.
8. (v.t.)sort to arrange according to kind or class: to sort socks.
9. sort to separate from other sorts (often fol. by out): to sort the good from the bad.
10. sort to assign to a particular class, group, etc. (often fol. by with, together, etc.): sorting people together indiscriminately.
11. sort to place (computerized data) in order, numerically or alphabetically.
12. (v.i.)sort Archaic. to suit; agree; fit.
13. sort sort out,
14. sort evolve; turn out: Wait and see how things sort out.
15. sort to put in order; clarify: After I sort things out here, I can leave.
16. sort of a mediocre or poor kind: a tennis player of sorts. Also, of a sort.
17. sort irritable or depressed.
18. sort indisposed; ill.
19. sort Print. short of certain characters of a font of type.
Definition of 'Sort'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)kind, sort, form, variety a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?"
2. (noun)sort an approximate definition or example "she wore a sort of magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert thing"
3. (noun)sort a person of a particular character or nature "what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort"
4. (verb)sort, sorting an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion "the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting"
5. (verb)screen, screen out, sieve, sort examine in order to test suitability "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
6. (verb)classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate arrange or order by classes or categories "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
2. sort all sorts of many different kinds of There were all sorts of people in the group.
3. sort of sorts indicates sth is not exactly how it should be It was an apology of sorts, but you could tell she didn't care.
4. sort sort of approximately, roughly; = kind of It's sort of round and has two handles.; "Did you understand it?" "Sort of."
5. (verb)sort to arrange into groups or categories The books have been sorted alphabetically.; We could sort the cards by color or suit.; I've sorted my clothes into several bags.
Definition of 'Sort'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Sort chance; lot; destiny
2. (noun)Sort a kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems
5. (noun)Sort a chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals
6. (noun)Sort a pair; a set; a suit
7. (noun)Sort letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered
8. (verb)Sort to separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness
9. (verb)Sort to reduce to order from a confused state
10. (verb)Sort to conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class
11. (verb)Sort to choose from a number; to select; to cull
12. (verb)Sort to conform; to adapt; to accommodate
13. (verb)Sort to join or associate with others, esp. with others of the samekind or species; to agree
14. (verb)Sort to suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize
Definitions of Sort 
Afrikaans: tipe
Arabic: نَوْع، طَبَقَه
Bulgarian: вид
Brazilian: tipo
Czech: druh
German: die Art
Danish: slags
Greek: είδος
Spanish: clase, tipo, género
Estonian: sort, liik, laad
Farsi: طبقه؛ گونه
Finnish: laji
French: sorte
Hebrew: סוּג
Hindi: किस्म, प्रकार
Croatian: vrsta, sorta
Hungarian: fajta
Indonesian: jenis
Icelandic: tegund
Italian: sorta, tipo
Japanese: 種類
Korean: 종류
Lithuanian: rūšis
Latvian: veids;šķirne; suga
Malay: jenis
Dutch: soort
Norwegian: type, slags, sort, art
Polish: rodzaj
Persian: طبقه؛ گونه
Pashto: طبقه
Portuguese: tipo
Romanian: fel
Russian: вид; род; сорт
Slovak: druh
Slovenian: vrsta
Serbian: vrsta
Swedish: sort, slag, typ
Thai: ชนิด; ประเภท; แบบ
Turkish: tür
Taiwanese: 種類
Ukrainian: рід; сорт; тип
Urdu: قسم، نوع
Vietnamese: loại, thứ, hạng
Chinese: 种类
