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'.
Typed by Lena--From WordNet
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.
Edited by Janet
Examples
- Miss Vye's family is a good one on her mother's side; and her father was a romantic wanderer--a sort of Greek Ulysses. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I have my sort of life apart from yours. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He knew how to blow any sort of bridge that you could name and he had blown them of all sizes and constructions. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I wonder what sort of a girl she is--whether good or naughty. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mr Sampson murmured that this was the sort of thing you might expect from one who had ever in her own family been an example and never an outrage. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His father was a farmer, that's true; but his mother was a sort of lady, as we know. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- And what sort of a young man is he? Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- You find the damask rose a goodish stock for most of the tender sorts, don't you, Mr. Gardener? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- All sorts, sir. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I enjoy the art of all sorts here immensely; but I suppose if I could pick my enjoyment to pieces I should find it made up of many different threads. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He thinks I am perfect: furnished with all sorts of sterling qualities and solid virtues, such as I never had, nor intend to have. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I have been throwed, all sorts of styles, all my life! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Well, it takes all sorts to make a world, and the professor hasn't let it take his appetite away. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The shoes next go to the packing department, where they are taken off the lasts, inspected, marked, tied together in pairs, sorted and packed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As in hand-making and before subjected to the action of the machine, the bristles are sorted as to length and color. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They are sorted, inspected and counted before removing from the foundry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- No, repeated Mrs. Jellyby in a calm clear voice, and with an agreeable smile, as she opened more letters and sorted them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All the mounds are sorted and sifted? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Sorting them out carefully with his eyes after he had seen them first together, Robert Jordan looked them over individually. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Because I suppose, sir, that what was found, was found in the sorting and sifting. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Well; I got the better of it, and went on sorting, and went on singing to myself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- By her side sat a woman with a bright tin pan in her lap, into which she was carefully sorting some dried peaches. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But crouched there, sorting out the grenades, what he was thinking was: it is impossible. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Beth was sorting the cones that lay thick under the hemlock near by, for she made pretty things with them. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We can't reason from our feelings to those of this class of persons, said the other lady, sorting out some worsteds on her lap. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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