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/sɔːt/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A general type.
  2. Manner; form of being or acting.
  3. Condition above the vulgar; rank.
  4. A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).
  5. Group, company.
  6. A good-looking woman.
  7. To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
  8. To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
  9. To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
  10. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
  11. To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
  12. To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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