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