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sort

noun
/soɹt/US/sɔːt/UK/soːt/

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from sortem
  2. derived from sorte
  3. inherited from sort

Definitions

  1. A general type.

    • The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

  2. Manner, way

    Manner, way; form of being or acting.

    • I’ll deceive you in another sort

  3. Condition above the vulgar

    Condition above the vulgar; rank.

  4. ›+ 20 more definitions

    1. A person evaluated in a certain way.

      • good sort, bad sort
      • There is no problem with this and he seems to be a decent sort with very good reflexes. I will have Felix replaced with him when we get back to Washington because he is more acceptable.
      • Amo, he is the prince. And he is a good sort. You, My Husband, should be among his circle

    2. Group, company.

      • a sort of shepherds suing of the Chace
      • a sort of doves were housed too near their hall
      • What good got you by wearing out your feet, To run on scurvy errands to the poor, and to bear mony to a sort of rogues And lousy prisoners?

    3. A good-looking woman.

    4. An act of sorting.

      • I had a sort of my cupboard.

    5. An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.

      • Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.
      • The fastest general algorithm we have considered that sorts keys in a stable manner is the list merge sort, but it does not use minimum storage

    6. A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size…

      A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.

      • Green managed to recover a total of 151 sorts (the name for individual pieces of type) out of a possible 500,000.

    7. A type.

    8. Fate, fortune, destiny.

      • For he is groſſe and like the maſſie earth, That mooues not vpwards, nor by princely deeds Doth meane to ſoare aboue the highest ſort.

    9. Anything used to determine the answer to a question by chance

      Anything used to determine the answer to a question by chance; lot.

      • No, make a lottery; And, by device, let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector.

    10. A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes or a suit of clothes.

    11. To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine…

      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.

    12. To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.

      • Sort those bells into a row in ascending sequence of pitch.

    13. To conjoin

      To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.

      • Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insecta.
      • For when she sorts things present with things past And thereby things to come doth oft foresee; When she doth doubt at first, and chuse at last, These acts her owne, without her body bee.

    14. To conform

      To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.

      • I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience.

    15. To choose from a number

      To choose from a number; to select; to cull.

      • To send his mother to her father's house, that he may sort her out a worthy spouse
      • I'll sort some other time to visit you.

    16. To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species

      To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.

      • The illiberality of Parents in allowance towards their children is an harmefull error: makes them base; acquaints them with shifts, makes them sort with meane companie; and makes them surfet more, when they come to plenty.

    17. To suit

      To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.

      • They are happie men, whose natures sort with their vocations, otherwise they may say Multum incola fuit anima mea; when they converse in those things they doe not affect.
      • I cannot tell ye precisely how they sorted; but they agreed sae right that Donald was invited to dance at the wedding in his Highland trews, and they said that there was never sae meikle siller clinked in his purse either before or since.

    18. To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).

      • ‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming [title]

    19. To attack physically.

      • If he comes nosing around here again I'll sort him!

    20. To geld.

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Derived

all sorts, in sort, out of sorts, sorta, sort of, that's your sort, copy sort, cycle sort, good sort, mergesort, middling sort, missort, picture sort, sortal, sort code, topological sort, alphasort, archaeosortase, besort, cubesort, immunosort, pick-and-sort, presort, re-sort, resort, serosort, Shellsort, sortability, sortable, sortase, sortation, sorted, sorting, sortkey, sort oneself out, sort out, sort the wheat from the chaff, sort through, sort-while-pick, subsort · +2 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sort. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA