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Meaning of 'sort' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sort [ n.]
- 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
Example in sentence:
  • screen the job applicants;
  • screen these samples

Nearby Words:

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