Sort

[sɔːt] or [sɔrt]

Definition

(noun.) an approximate definition or example; 'she wore a sort of magenta dress'; 'she served a creamy sort of dessert thing'.

(noun.) a person of a particular character or nature; 'what sort of person is he?'; 'he's a good sort'.

(noun.) an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; 'the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting'.

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Definition

(n.) Chance; lot; destiny.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Manner; form of being or acting.

(n.) Condition above the vulgar; rank.

(n.) A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.

(n.) A pair; a set; a suit.

(n.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.

(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.

(v. t.) To reduce to order from a confused state.

(v. t.) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.

(v. t.) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.

(v. t.) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.

(v. i.) To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.

(v. i.) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.

Checker: Ramona

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Kind, species, description, class, denomination, character, nature.[2]. Manner, way, degree.

v. a. Distribute (into sorts), assort, class, classify.

v. n. Associate, consort, fraternize, be in familiar intercourse.

Typist: Sam

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Kind, species, nature, class, order, character, rank, manner, quality,condition, description, designation, genus

ANT:non-description, solitariness, uniqueness, nonclassification, heterogeneity

Typist: Winfred

Definition

n. a number of persons or things having like qualities: class kind or species: order or rank: manner.—v.t. to separate into lots or classes: to put together: to select: to procure adapt: to geld: (Scot.) to adjust put right dispose fix: to punish.—v.i. to be joined with others of the same sort: to associate: to suit.—adj. Sort′able capable of being sorted: (Bacon) suitable befitting.—ns. Sort′ance (Shak.) suitableness agreement; Sort′er one who separates and arranges as letters; Sort′es lots used in divination by passages selected by hazard from the Bible Homer Virgil &c.; Sort′ilege the act or practice of divination by drawing lots; Sorti′tion the casting of lots; Sort′ment act of sorting.—In a sort (Shak.) in a manner; In sort inasmuch as; Out of sorts out of order unwell: (print.) with some sorts of type in the font exhausted.

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