sort
IPA: sˈɔrt
noun
- 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.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "sort" in Sentences
- The category is sort of in limbo.
- It is a sort of oblivion of unconsciousness.
- Press the sorting button of the column to sort it.
- What sort of man is noble and what sort is ignoble
- KIRBY: The title sort of emerged out of the text itself. . .
- The airlines are sorted alphabetically by activeness and type.
- Is wikipedia the right sort of place for this sort of pub bar drivel.
- As I said, these categories fit snugly into the way that sorting works.
- In the collation phase, blocks are sorted according to their file type.
- As I said, these categories fit snugly into the way that stub sorting works.
- The article is already in the correct categories with the appropriate sorting.
- 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_."