SORT
\sˈɔːt], \sˈɔːt], \s_ˈɔː_t]\
Definitions of SORT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
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examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
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a person of a particular character or nature; "what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort"
By Princeton University
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arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
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examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
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a person of a particular character or nature; "what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Chance; lot; destiny.
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A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.
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Manner; form of being or acting.
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Condition above the vulgar; rank.
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A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
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A pair; a set; a suit.
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Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
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To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.
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To reduce to order from a confused state.
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To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
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To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
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To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
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To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
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To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
By Oddity Software
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A kind or species; class, rank, or order; manner; nature.
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To separate and place in different divisions according to classes, kind, etc.; to classify.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A number of persons or things having like qualities: class, kind, or species: order or rank: manner.
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To separate into lots or classes: to put together: to select.
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To be joined with others of the same sort: to associate: to suit.
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SORTER.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. [Latin] A kind or species; ally number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities ; -manner ; form of being or acting ;-degree of any quality ;-pl. Letters, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats of particular kinds.
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