Definitions for sort

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Spelling: [sawrt]

IPA: /sɔrt/

Sort is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in sort (orst).

Definitions for sort

noun

1. a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:
2. character, quality, or nature:
3. an example of something that is undistinguished or barely adequate:
4. manner, fashion, or way:
5. Printing. any of the individual characters making up a font of type. characters of a particular font that are rarely used.
6. an instance of sorting.

Idioms

1. of sorts, of a mediocre or poor kind: of one sort or another; of an indefinite kind. Also, of a sort.
2. out of sorts, in low spirits; depressed. in poor health; indisposed; ill. in a bad temper; irritable: Printing. short of certain characters of a font of type.
3. sort of, Informal. in a way; somewhat; rather:

Verb phrases

1. sort out, evolve; develop; turn out: to put in order; clarify:

verb (used with object)

1. to arrange according to sort, kind, or class; separate into sorts; classify:
2. to separate or take from other sorts or from others (often followed by out):
3. to assign to a particular class, group, or place (often followed by with, together, etc.):
4. Scot. to provide with food and shelter.
5. Computers. to place (records) in order, as numerical or alphabetical, based on the contents of one or more keys contained in each record. Compare key1 (def 19).

verb (used without object)

1. Archaic. to suit; agree; fit.
2. British Dialect. to associate, mingle, or be friendly.

Origin of sort

1200-50; (noun) Middle English Middle French sorte Medieval Latin sort- (stem of sors) kind, allotted status or portion, lot, Latin: orig., voter's lot; (v.) Middle English sorten to allot, a

Examples for sort

I had enough experiences around languages that it just sort of happened.

It had grown much too cold to do without some sort of artificial covering.

She came down to breakfast singing the words in a sort of ecstasy.

Luckily, Tor was prepared for this sort of assault, and has built-in defenses to protect against it.

Again came the cry, more gently, ending in a sort of sobbing monologue.

Is it sort of evidence of the Gladwellian 10,000 hours theory?

When he was first incarcerated, he says some sort of paperwork snafu had him imprisoned under two different, but similar, names.

Except for a very few words we do not know what sort of tongue it was.

But I trusted Tony Robbins could sort me out on both fronts.

But he had not done so, and she was glad he could be restrained and deliberate in that "breedy" sort of way.