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sort (sôrt)

noun

  1. any group of persons or things related by having something in common; kind; class
  2. quality or type; nature remarks of that sort
  3. Archaic manner or way
  4. Comput. the act or an instance of sorting
  5. Printing any of the kinds of characters in a font of type

Etymology: ME < MFr < VL *sorta < L sors (gen. sortis), lot, chance, fate, akin to serere, to join together, arrange: see series

transitive verb

to place, separate, or arrange according to class or kind: often with out

intransitive verb

  1. Archaic to associate; consort
  2. Archaic to harmonize or agree; suit
  3. Comput. to arrange a group of records in a particular way, as chronologically or alphabetically, so that they can be accessed more efficiently

Related Forms:

sort Idioms

after a sort

in some way but not very well

of sorts

  1. of various kinds
  2. of a poor or inferior kind
    also of a sort

out of sorts

  1. Printing lacking certain sorts of type
  2. Informal
    1. not in a good humor; cross
    2. not feeling well; slightly ill

sort of

Informal somewhat

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