sort /sört/

1. A class, kind, or species
2. Quality or rank
3. One, a specimen or instance, of a kind (often ungrammatically in the singular with these or those, to denote examples of this or that kind)
4. Something of the nature but not quite worthy of the name
5. The arranging of data or the product of this (computing)
6. A letter, stop, or other character in a fount of type (printing)
7. Manner
8. A person (informal)
9. A woman, esp an attractive one (slang, orig Aust)
10. A company, group, collection, parcel (obsolete)
11. A lot (in sortilege) (Shakespeare)

1. To separate into lots or classes
2. To group, classify, arrange
3. To pick out, select
4. To put in good order
5. To adjust, put to rights, attend to (Scot)
6. To geld
7. To beat, punish (informal)
8. To deal effectively with (esp in a vague threat) (informal)
9. To provide (Scot)
10. To procure (Scot)
11. To allot, assign (Shakespeare)
12. To dispose (Shakespeare)
13. To befit (rare)

1. To come about, turn out (obsolete)
2. To fit, accord (rare)
3. To agree (Scot)
4. To consort (dialect)

sortˈable adjective

1. Capable of being sorted
2. Assorted
3. Suitable, befitting (rare)

sortˈance noun (Shakespeare)

Suitableness, agreement

sortāˈtion noun

A sorting out

sortˈed adjective

1. Put into order
2. Classified
3. Well-organized or-equipped, esp with drugs (slang)
4. Well-balanced, esp emotionally (informal)

sortˈer noun

Someone who (or something which) separates and arranges (eg letters)

sortˈes /-ēz or -ās/ plural noun

Divination by chance opening of the Bible, Homer, Virgil, etc

sortˈing noun and adjective

sortiˈtion noun

The casting of lots

sortˈment noun

1. A sorting out
2. An assortment

sort code noun

A sequence of numbers used to identify a bank and an account held at that bank

sorting office noun

A place where mail that has been posted is sorted by destination

after a sort

To some extent

a good sort

A decent fellow

in a sort

In a manner

in some sort

1. In a way
2. As it were

in sort

1. In a body (Shakespeare)
2. Inasmuch (Spenser)

of a sort or of sorts

1. Vague, rough, inexact
2. Inferior

out of sorts

1. Out of order, slightly unwell
2. With some sorts of type in the fount exhausted (printing)

sort of (informal; used adverbially and parenthetically)

1. As it were
2. To an extent
3. Rather

sort out

1. To classify, separate, arrange, etc
2. To deal with, punish, etc

that's your sort

1. That's right
2. Well done
3. Go on

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