Sortnoun
A general type.
Sortedverb
simple past tense and past participle of sort
Sortnoun
Manner; form of being or acting.
Sortedadjective
Put into some order by sorting.
‘a sorted list of numbers’;
Sortnoun
(obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
Sortedadjective
In good order, under control.
‘I have to get my life sorted.’;
Sortnoun
(informal) A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).
Sortedadjective
In possession of a sufficient supply, especially of narcotics.
‘Sorted for E's & Wizz (song and album by UK band Pulp)’;
Sortnoun
(dated) Group, company.
Sortedinterjection
A general expression of approval.
Sortnoun
A good-looking woman.
Sortedadjective
arranged according to size
Sortnoun
An act of sorting.
‘I had a sort of my cupboard.’;
Sortedadjective
arranged into groups
Sortnoun
(computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
‘Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.’;
Sortnoun
(typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
Sortnoun
(mathematics) A type.
Sortnoun
(obsolete) Chance; lot; destiny.
Sortnoun
(obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.
Sortverb
(transitive) 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 that you recognise; sort the rest into a common pile for later attention.’;
Sortverb
(transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
‘Sort those bells into a row in ascending sequence of pitch: lowest tones on the left; highest on the right.’;
Sortverb
(transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
Sortverb
To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
Sortverb
To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
Sortverb
(intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
Sortverb
(intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
Sortverb
To fix a problem or handle a task; to sort out.
Sortnoun
Chance; lot; destiny.
‘By aventure, or sort, or cas [chance].’; ‘Let blockish Ajax drawThe sort to fight with Hector.’;
Sortnoun
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.
Sortnoun
Manner; form of being or acting.
‘Which for my part I covet to perform,In sort as through the world I did proclaim.’; ‘Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them.’; ‘I'll deceive you in another sort.’; ‘To Adam in what sortShall I appear?’; ‘I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style.’;
Sortnoun
Condition above the vulgar; rank.
Sortnoun
A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
‘A boy, a child, and we a sort of us,Vowed against his voyage.’;
Sortnoun
A pair; a set; a suit.
Sortnoun
Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
‘As when the total kindOf birds, in orderly array on wing,Came summoned over Eden to receiveTheir names of there.’; ‘None of noble sortWould so offend a virgin.’;
Sortverb
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.
‘Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another.’;
Sortverb
To reduce to order from a confused state.
Sortverb
To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
‘Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects.’; ‘She sorts things present with things past.’;
Sortverb
To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
‘That he may sort out a worthy spouse.’; ‘I'll sort some other time to visit you.’;
Sortverb
To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
‘I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience.’;
Sortverb
To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
‘Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals.’; ‘The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company.’;
Sortverb
To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
‘They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations.’; ‘Things sort not to my will.’; ‘I can not tell you precisely how they sorted.’;
Sortnoun
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality;
‘sculpture is a form of art’; ‘what kinds of desserts are there?’;
Sortnoun
an approximate definition or example;
‘she wore a sort of magenta dress’; ‘she served a creamy sort of dessert thing’;
Sortnoun
a person of a particular character or nature;
‘what sort of person is he?’; ‘he's a good sort’;
Sortnoun
an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion;
‘the bottleneck in mail delivery it the process of sorting’;
Sortverb
examine in order to test suitability;
‘screen these samples’; ‘screen the job applicants’;
Sortverb
arrange or order by classes or categories;
‘How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?’;