Sort

Quick meaning: Sort is a noun meaning A general type.

Meaning

A general type.

More Meanings

1. (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way.
2. (British, Australia, informal) A good-looking woman.
3. An act of sorting.
4. (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
5. (archaic) Manner, way; form of being or acting.
6. (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
7. (obsolete) Group, company.

Example Sentences

I’ll deceive you in another sort

Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.

But to Adam in what sort Shall I appeer? shall I to him make known As yet my change, and give him to partake Full happiness with mee, or rather not, But keep the odds of Knowledge within my power Without copartner?

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.

Word Forms

• sorts
• sorting
• sorted
• sortest
• sortedst
• sorteth

Synonyms for sort

Depending on context, synonyms include genre, genus, kind, type, variety, character.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include classify, assort, class, form, kind, variety.

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