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sort
[ sawrt ]
noun
- a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
to develop a new sort of painting;
nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- character, quality, or nature:
young people of a nice sort.
- an example of something that is undistinguished or barely adequate:
He is a sort of poet.
- manner, fashion, or way:
We spoke in this sort for several minutes.
- Printing.
- any of the individual characters making up a font of type.
- characters of a particular font that are rarely used.
- an instance of sorting.
verb (used with object)
- to arrange according to sort, kind, or class; separate into sorts; classify:
to sort socks;
to sort eggs by grade.
- to separate or take from other sorts or from others (often followed by out ): to sort out the children's socks.
to sort the good from the bad;
to sort out the children's socks.
- to assign to a particular class, group, or place (often followed by with, together, etc.):
to sort people together indiscriminately.
- Scot. to provide with food and shelter.
- Computers. to place (records) in order, as numerical or alphabetical, based on the contents of one or more keys contained in each record. Compare key 1( def 19 ).
verb (used without object)
- Archaic. to suit; agree; fit.
- British Dialect. to associate, mingle, or be friendly.
sort
/ sɔːt /
noun
- a class, group, kind, etc, as distinguished by some common quality or characteristic
- informal.type of character, nature, etc
he's a good sort
- a more or less definable or adequate example
it's a sort of review
- often plural printing any of the individual characters making up a fount of type
- archaic.manner; way
in this sort we struggled home
- after a sortto some extent
- of sorts or of a sort
- of an inferior kind
- of an indefinite kind
- out of sortsnot in normal good health, temper, etc
- sort of informal.
- adverb in some way or other; as it were; rather
- sentence substitute used to express reservation or qualified assent
I’m only joking. Sort of
verb
- tr to arrange according to class, type, etc
- tr to put (something) into working order
- tr to arrange (computer information) by machine in an order convenient to the computer user
- informal.trfoll bywith to supply, esp with drugs
- archaic.intr; foll by with, together, etc to associate, as on friendly terms
- archaic.intr to agree; accord
Usage Note
Usage
Derived Forms
- ˈsortable, adjective
- ˈsorter, noun
- ˈsortably, adverb
Other Words From
- sorta·ble adjective
- sorta·bly adverb
- sorter noun
- mis·sort verb
- subsort noun
- sub·sort verb
- sub·sorter noun
- under·sort verb (used with object)
- un·sort verb (used with object)
- un·sorta·ble adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of sort1
Word History and Origins
Origin of sort1
Idioms and Phrases
- of sorts, Also of a sort.
- of a mediocre or poor kind:
a tennis player of sorts.
- of one sort or another; of an indefinite kind.
- out of sorts,
- in low spirits; depressed.
- in poor health; indisposed; ill.
- in a bad temper; irritable:
to be out of sorts because of the weather.
- Printing. short of certain characters of a font of type.
Their conversation was sort of tiresome.
More idioms and phrases containing sort
see after a fashion (sort) ; all kinds (sorts) of ; bad sort ; it takes all sorts ; kind (sort) of ; nothing of the kind (sort) ; of sorts ; out of sorts .Example Sentences
I also noticed that on the sort of holidays and things like that, food was always really central.
To make the process faster, you should offer some sort of internal website search functionality.
The flipside, of course, is that this is James Harden — the sort of offensive talent that any coach would want the chance to build a system around if given the opportunity.
To his surprise, he found quite a few reports describing this sort of immune cross-protection.
Stylistically, the Mystery Ship looks like a sort of dead end, but thematically, Craig Vetter knew exactly where motorcycles were headed.
Is it sort of evidence of the Gladwellian 10,000 hours theory?
I had enough experiences around languages that it just sort of happened.
When he was first incarcerated, he says some sort of paperwork snafu had him imprisoned under two different, but similar, names.
But I trusted Tony Robbins could sort me out on both fronts.
Luckily, Tor was prepared for this sort of assault, and has built-in defenses to protect against it.
This treacherous sort of calm, we thought, might forbode a storm, and we did not allow it to lull us into security.
I want to see the sort of thing happening to schools that has already happened to many sorts of retail shops.
It is no good settling down in a world that, on its part, refuses to do anything of the sort.
Now in addition to that I had something else in my own college course—something of the same sort of thing but better.
Presently he began to shiver so, with some sort of a chill, that I took off my coat and wrapped it round him.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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