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sort /sört/ noun- A class, kind, or species
- Quality or rank
- One, a specimen or instance, of a kind (often ungrammatically in the singular with these or those, to denote examples of this or that kind)
- Something of the nature but not quite worthy of the name
- The arranging of data or the product of this (computing)
- A letter, stop, or other character in a fount of type (printing)
- Manner
- A person (informal)
- A woman, esp an attractive one (slang, orig Aust)
- A company, group, collection, parcel (obsolete)
- A lot (in sortilege) (Shakespeare)
transitive verb- To separate into lots or classes
- To group, classify, arrange
- To pick out, select
- To put in good order
- To adjust, put to rights, attend to (Scot)
- To geld
- To beat, punish (informal)
- To deal effectively with (esp in a vague threat) (informal)
- To provide (Scot)
- To procure (Scot)
- To allot, assign (Shakespeare)
- To dispose (Shakespeare)
- To befit (rare)
intransitive verb- To come about, turn out (obsolete)
- To fit, accord (rare)
- To agree (Scot)
- To consort (dialect)
ORIGIN: L sors, sortis a lot, sortīrī to draw lots; partly through OFr sortˈable adjective - Capable of being sorted
- Assorted
- Suitable, befitting (rare)
sortˈance noun (Shakespeare) Suitableness, agreement sortāˈtion noun A sorting out sortˈed adjective - Put into order
- Classified
- Well-organized or-equipped, esp with drugs (slang)
- Well-balanced, esp emotionally (informal)
sortˈer noun Someone who (or something which) separates and arranges (eg letters) sortˈes /-ēz or -ās/ plural noun Divination by chance opening of the Bible, Homer, Virgil, etc sortˈing noun and adjective sortiˈtion noun The casting of lots sortˈment noun - A sorting out
- An assortment
sort code noun A sequence of numbers used to identify a bank and an account held at that bank sorting office noun A place where mail that has been posted is sorted by destination after a sort To some extent a good sort A decent fellow in a sort In a manner in some sort - In a way
- As it were
in sort - In a body (Shakespeare)
- Inasmuch (Spenser)
of a sort or of sorts - Vague, rough, inexact
- Inferior
out of sorts - Out of order, slightly unwell
- With some sorts of type in the fount exhausted (printing)
sort of (informal; used adverbially and parenthetically) - As it were
- To an extent
- Rather
sort out - To classify, separate, arrange, etc
- To deal with, punish, etc
that's your sort - That's right
- Well done
- Go on
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