sort.
A general type.
Meaning & usage
A general type.
Manner, way; form of being or acting.
Condition above the vulgar; rank.
A person evaluated in a certain way.
good sort, bad sort
Group, company.
A good-looking woman.
An act of sorting.
I had a sort of my cupboard.
An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.
A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
A type.
Fate, fortune, destiny.
Anything used to determine the answer to a question by chance; lot.
A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes or a suit of clothes.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (cognate Dutch soort, German Sorte, Danish sort, Swedish sort), borrowed from Old French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sortem, accusative form of sors (“lot, fate, share, rank, category”).
To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
Sort the letters in those bags into a separate pile for each language.
To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
Sort those bells into a row in ascending sequence of pitch.
To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
To attack physically.
If he comes nosing around here again I'll sort him!
To geld.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English sorten, from Old French sortir (“to allot, sort”), from Latin sortīre (“draw lots, divide, choose”), from sors.
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