- Chance; lot; destiny. - 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. - Manner; form of being or acting. - Condition above the vulgar; rank. - A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be
together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals. - A pair; a set; a suit. - Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats,
belonging to a case, separately considered.
2 . Sort
[ v. i.]
- To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the
same kind or species; to agree. - To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
3 . Sort
[ v. t.]
- 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. - To reduce to order from a confused state. - To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. - To choose from a number; to select; to cull. - To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
Meaning of 'sort' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . sort
[ n]
Meaning (1): - a person of a particular character or nature
Example in sentence:
he's a good sort;
what sort of person is he?
Meaning (2): - a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
Example in sentence:
sculpture is a form of art;
what kinds of desserts are there?
Meaning (3): - an approximate definition or example
Example in sentence:
she served a creamy sort of dessert thing;
she wore a sort of magenta dress
Meaning (4): - an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
Example in sentence:
the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting
5 . sort
[ v]
Meaning (5): - arrange or order by classes or categories
Example in sentence:
How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?
Meaning (6): - examine in order to test suitability
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