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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.
Synonyms: , , , , ,
- 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
/ ɔː /
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
- ˈǰٲ, adjective
- ˈǰٱ, noun
- ˈǰٲ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- ǰa· adjective
- ǰa· adverb
- ǰİ noun
- ·ǰ verb
- ܲsǰ noun
- ܲ·ǰ verb
- sub·ǰİ noun
- ܲd·ǰ verb (used with object)
- ܲ·ǰ verb (used with object)
- un·ǰa· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sort1
51Թ 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've got threads and threads of nobody wanting to communicate with me, and I was asking for so much help to try and sort this out."
A force with depth & weight which will take some time to sort out.
Not that Trương presents any of this in any sort of schematic way.
It's difficult to sort of see "any kind of clear strategy or intention," from the Trump administration so far, she tells the BBC.
"I never switch on the TV and hear any sort of strong voice," he said.
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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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