sort

Meaning

1. A general type.
2. Manner; form of being or acting.
3. (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
4. (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way.
5. Group, company.
6. (informal) A good-looking woman.
7. An act of sorting.
8. An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
9. A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
10. A type.
11. (obsolete) Chance; lot; destiny.
12. (obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.

kind

type

put in order

ravel out

show the way

negociate

pick from

puzzle over

divide among

partition out

research

sport

system of classification

rank kind

sortation

partition method

generic group

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɔːt/

From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (= Dutch soort, German Sorte, Danish sort, Swedish sort), borrowed from Old French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sortem, accusative form of sors (“lot, fate, share, rank, category”).