sort

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/soɹt/

noun · verb

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01
noun
A group or type of people or things.
02
verb
To arrange things into groups or in order.

Examples

It took quite a while to sort out all our luggage.
Please sort these files into alphabetical order before leaving.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

/sɔːt/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

Condition above the vulgar; rank.
Manner, way; form of being or acting.
A general type.

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That sort of thing can happen when you are in haste.
I had a sort of my cupboard.
Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.

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She needed to blank all the papers by date before filing them.

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I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.[…]”
1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.
2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37
The fastest general algorithm we have considered that sorts keys in a stable manner is the list merge sort, but it does not use minimum storage
2014, Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming. Sorting and Searching, →ISBN

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Origin

noun

From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (cognate 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”).

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noun

She needed to blank all the papers by date before filing them.