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Definition of 'sort'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

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?"

Definition of 'sort'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) sort
type
What sort of dog have you got?

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

3. (noun) sort
manner; form of being or acting

4. (noun) sort
condition above the vulgar; rank

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 same kind or species; to agree

14. (verb) sort
to suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize

Translation of 'sort'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a class, type or kind I like all sorts of books; She was wearing a sort of crown.
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
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