Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of persons or things of the same general character; a kind.
- noun Character or nature.
- noun One that exemplifies the characteristics of or serves a similar function to another.
- noun A person; an individual.
- noun Computers An operation that arranges data in a specified way.
- noun Archaic A way of acting or behaving.
- intransitive verb To place or arrange according to class, kind, or size; classify: synonym: arrange.
- intransitive verb To separate from others.
- intransitive verb To make a search or examination of a collection of things.
- intransitive verb To be or become arranged in a certain way.
- idiom (after a sort) In a haphazard or imperfect way.
- idiom (sorts/a sort) Of a mediocre or inferior kind.
- idiom (sorts/a sort) Of one kind or another.
- idiom (out of sorts) Slightly ill.
- idiom (out of sorts) Irritable; cross.
- idiom (sort of) Somewhat; rather.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give or appoint by lot; hence, in general, to allot; assign.
- To ordain; decree.
- To select; choose; pick out.
- To set apart; assign to a particular place or station; rank; class.
- To separate into sorts; arrange according to kind; classify: sometimes with over.
- To conform; accommodate; adapt; suit.
- To put in the proper state or order; set right; adjust; dispose.
- To supply in suitable sorts; assort.
- To procure; obtain; attain; reach.
- To punish; chastise.
- To cast lots; decide or divine anything by lot; hence, in general, to practise divination or soothsaying.
- To come to pass; chance; happen; turn out; specifically, to have a satisfactory issue; succeed.
- To tend; lead; conduce.
- To be of the same sort or class (with another); be like or comparable; consort; associate; agree; harmonize: with with, rarely to.
- To be suitable or favorable.
- noun A lot; that which is awarded or determined by lot; hence, in general, one's fate, fortune, or destiny.
- noun Allotted station or position; condition; rank; specifically, high rank; social eminence.
- noun Characteristic mode of being; nature; quality; character.
- noun A number of persons, things, ideas, etc., grouped together according to the possession of common attributes; a kind, as determined by nature, quality, character, or habits; a species; a class.
- noun Specifically— A particular class or order of people.
- noun In printing, one of the characters or pieces in a font of type, considered with reference to its relative supply or lack: nearly always in the plural: as, to be out of sorts (that is, to lack some of the necessary types in a case); to order sorts for a font (that is, to order more of the kinds of type of which it is deficient).
- noun Kind: used indefinitely of something more or less resembling the thing specified: with of, like
kind of . Seekind , n., 5, and comparesort of below. - noun A number or quantity of things of the same kind or used together; a set; a suit.
- noun A group; a flock; a troop; a company.
- noun Particular mode of action or procedure; manner; fashion; way.
- noun Out of health or spirits; out of the normal condition of body or mind; cross.
- noun In printing, short of one or more characters in type: said of a compositor, or of his case.
- noun [Sort, like
kind , is often erroneously used in the singular form with a plural force and connection. Comparekind . - noun Synonyms Kind, Sort, Kind is by derivation a deeper or more serious word than sort; sort is often used slightingly, while kind is rarely so used.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_little plant_ or sort, as _Pouchong_, or _folded sort_, refers to the mode of packing it; _Campoi_ is corrupted from _kan pei_ i.e. carefully fired; _Chulan_ is the tea scented with the chulan flower, and applied to some kinds of scented green tea.
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She was approaching them at a brisk trot, greeting her numerous acquaintance as she passed with familiar nods, at each giving her horses an additional touch, and pursing up her lips to accelerate their speed; indeed, she was so intent upon the management of her reins, and her eyes so fixed upon her cattle, that there was no time for more than a sort of sidelong glance of recognition; and every additional smack of the whip seem'd to say, "_Here I come -- that's your sort_."
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KIRBY: The title sort of emerged out of the text itself. . .
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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KIRBY: The title sort of emerged out of the text itself. . .
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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KIRBY: The title sort of emerged out of the text itself. . .
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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But this anarchist lassie kept insisting on calling it Bovril, and the name sort of … stuck.
Behemoth Mr. Scott Westerfeld 2010
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Well, the title sort of says it by itself, but Sky Entertainment has a nice gallery of Magda Apanowicz photos from various events including SyFy events.
Planet-x.com.au » The Women of Caprica: Caprica: Sexy Magda Apanowicz Pictures! 2010
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It's this directionality, or investment in the object, and in the label sort of like Quine's ontological commitment, that implies an essence.
Essentialist Intuitions Chris 2004
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I'm sorry to see this one is out of print because it's really funny in places, even if the title sort of tells you what happens.
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The title sort of goes into two different directions at once and I wanted -- I wanted to sort of intrigue people in that way.
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