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Definitions and meaning of sort
sort
Pronunciation
(UK) IPA(key): /sɔːt/
(US) IPA(key): /sɔɹt/
Homophone: sought(in non-rhotic accents)
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishsort, soort, sorte (= Dutchsoort, GermanSorte, Danishsort, Swedishsort), borrowed from Old Frenchsorte(“class, kind”), from Latinsortem, accusative form of sors(“lot, fate, share, rank, category”).
Noun
sort (pluralsorts)
A general type.
Manner; form of being or acting.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
(obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
(informal) A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).
(dated) Group, company.
(Australia, informal) A good-looking woman.
An act of sorting.
(computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
(typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
(mathematics) A type.
(obsolete) Chance; lot; destiny.
(obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:sort.
Synonyms
(type):genre, genus, kind, type, variety
(person):character, individual, person, type
(act of sorting):sort-out
(in computing): sort algorithm, sorting algorithm
(typography):glyph, type
See also Thesaurus:class
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old Frenchsortir(“allot, sort”), from Latinsortire(“draw lots, divide, choose”), from sors.
Verb
sort (third-person singular simple presentsorts, present participlesorting, simple past and past participlesorted)
(transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
Synonyms:categorize, class, classify, group
(transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
Synonyms:order, rank
(transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
(transitive, obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
(transitive, obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
(intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
(intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
(Britain, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
Synonym:sort out
(Britain, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.
Synonym:sort out
If he comes nosing around here again I'll sort him!
(transitive) To geld.
Usage notes
In British sense “to fix a problem”, often used in constructions like “I’ll get you sorted” or “Now that’s sorted” – in American and Australian usage sort out is used instead.
Derived terms
re-sort, resort
sorted
sorting
sort out
Translations
Further reading
sort at OneLook Dictionary Search
sort in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
References
Anagrams
RTOS, RTOs, TROs, orts, rost, rots, tors
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitansort, from Latinsortem, accusative singular of sors, from Proto-Italic*sortis, from Proto-Indo-European*ser-(“to bind”).
Pronunciation
(Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈsɔɾt/
(Central) IPA(key): /ˈsɔrt/
Rhymes: -ɔɾt
Noun
sortf (uncountable)
luck
fortune
Derived terms
Further reading
“sort” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“sort” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
“sort” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“sort” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norsesvartr(“black”), from Proto-Germanic*swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European*swordo-(“dirty, dark, black”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈsoɐ̯d̥]
Adjective
sort
black (absorbing most light)
under the table; done in secret so as to avoid taxation
From Old Frenchsort, from Latinsortem, accusative singular of sors, from Proto-Italic*sortis, from Proto-Indo-European*ser-(“to bind”). Cf. also the borrowed doublet sorte.
Noun
sortm (pluralsorts)
fate, destiny (consequences or effects predetermined by past events or a divine will)
lot (something used in determining a question by chance)
spell (magical incantation)
Derived terms
mauvais sort
Related terms
sorcier
sorte
sortir
Etymology 2
See sortir.
Verb
sort
third-person singular present indicative of sortir
Further reading
“sort” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian
Alternative forms
sord(alternative orthography)
Etymology
From Latinsurdus.
Adjective
sort
deaf
Related terms
sordine
See also
mut
Hungarian
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈʃort]
Rhymes: -ort
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Englishshorts.
Noun
sort (pluralsortok)
shorts (pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees)