sort

IPA: sˈɔrt

A general type.
Manner; form of being or acting.
(obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
(informal) A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).
(dated) Group, company.
(Britain, informal) A good-looking woman.
An act of sorting.
(computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
(typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
(mathematics) A type.
(obsolete) Chance; lot; destiny.
(obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.

(transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
(transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
(transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
(transitive, obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
(transitive, obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
(intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
(intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
(Britain, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
(Britain, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.
(transitive) To geld.

Examples of "sort" in Sentences

KIRBY: The title sort of emerged out of the text itself. . .
But this anarchist lassie kept insisting on calling it Bovril, and the name sort of … stuck.
The title sort of goes into two different directions at once and I wanted -- I wanted to sort of intrigue people in that way.
I'm sorry to see this one is out of print because it's really funny in places, even if the title sort of tells you what happens.
It's this directionality, or investment in the object, and in the label sort of like Quine's ontological commitment, that implies an essence.
Well, the title sort of says it by itself, but Sky Entertainment has a nice gallery of Magda Apanowicz photos from various events including SyFy events.
_little plant_ or sort, as _Pouchong_, or _folded sort_, refers to the mode of packing it; _Campoi_ is corrupted from _kan pei_ i.e. carefully fired; _Chulan_ is the tea scented with the chulan flower, and applied to some kinds of scented green tea.
She was approaching them at a brisk trot, greeting her numerous acquaintance as she passed with familiar nods, at each giving her horses an additional touch, and pursing up her lips to accelerate their speed; indeed, she was so intent upon the management of her reins, and her eyes so fixed upon her cattle, that there was no time for more than a sort of sidelong glance of recognition; and every additional smack of the whip seem'd to say, "_Here I come -- that's your sort_."