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Definition: Sort

Sort \Sort\, n. [F. sorl, L. sors, sortis. See Sort kind.]
Chance; lot; destiny. [Obs.]
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By aventure, or sort, or cas [chance]. --Chaucer.
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Let blockish Ajax draw
The sort to fight with Hector. --Shak.
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Sort \Sort\, n. [F. sorie (cf. It. sorta, sorte), from L. sors,
sorti, a lot, part, probably akin to serere to connect. See
Series, and cf. Assort, Consort, Resort, Sorcery,
Sort lot.]
1. 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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2. Manner; form of being or acting.
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Which for my part I covet to perform,
In sort as through the world I did proclaim.
--Spenser.
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Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor
seen well by those that wear them. --Hooker.
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I'll deceive you in another sort. --Shak.
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To Adam in what sort
Shall I appear? --Milton.
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I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some
sort I have copied his style. --Dryden.
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3. Condition above the vulgar; rank. [Obs.] --Shak.
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4. A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be
together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals. [Obs.]
``A sort of shepherds.'' --Spenser. ``A sort of steers.''
--Spenser. ``A sort of doves.'' --Dryden. ``A sort of
rogues.'' --Massinger.
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A boy, a child, and we a sort of us,
Vowed against his voyage. --Chapman.
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5. A pair; a set; a suit. --Johnson.
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6. pl. (Print.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or
quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
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Out of sorts (Print.), with some letters or sorts of type
deficient or exhausted in the case or font; hence,
colloquially, out of order; ill; vexed; disturbed.

To run upon sorts (Print.), to use or require a greater
number of some particular letters, figures, or marks than
the regular proportion, as, for example, in making an
index.
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Syn: Kind; species; rank; condition.

Usage: Sort, Kind. Kind originally denoted things of the
same family, or bound together by some natural
affinity; and hence, a class. Sort signifies that
which constitutes a particular lot of parcel, not
implying necessarily the idea of affinity, but of mere
assemblage. the two words are now used to a great
extent interchangeably, though sort (perhaps from its
original meaning of lot) sometimes carries with it a
slight tone of disparagement or contempt, as when we
say, that sort of people, that sort of language.
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As when the total kind
Of birds, in orderly array on wing,
Came summoned over Eden to receive
Their names of there. --Milton.
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None of noble sort
Would so offend a virgin. --Shak.
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Sort \Sort\, v. i.
1. To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the
same kind or species; to agree.
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Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the
earth, and minerals with minerals. --Woodward.
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The illiberality of parents towards children makes
them base, and sort with any company. --Bacon.
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2. To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
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They are happy whose natures sort with their
vocations. --Bacon.
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Things sort not to my will. --herbert.
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I can not tell you precisely how they sorted. --Sir
W. Scott.
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Sort \Sort\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sorted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sorting.]
1. 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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Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted
and sorted from one another. --Sir I.
Newton.
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2. To reduce to order from a confused state. --Hooker.
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3. To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
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Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients,
compared and sorted with insects. --Bacon.
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She sorts things present with things past. --Sir J.
Davies.
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4. To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
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That he may sort out a worthy spouse. --Chapman.
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I'll sort some other time to visit you. --Shak.
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5. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. [R.]
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I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience. --Shak.
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Dictionary: quick_english-indonesian
Definition: sort

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Dictionary: WordNet
Definition: sort

sort
n 1: a category of things distinguished by some common
characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art";
"what kinds of desserts are there?" [syn: kind, form,
variety]
2: an approximate definition or example; "she wore a sort of
magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert
thing"
3: a person of a particular character or nature; "what sort of
person is he?"; "he's a good sort"
4: an operation that segregates items into groups according to
a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery it
the process of sorting" [syn: sorting]

sort
v 1: examine in order to test suitability; "screen these
samples"; "screen the job applicants" [syn: screen, {screen
out}, sieve]
2: arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you
classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
[syn: classify, class, assort, sort out, separate]