sort

Meaning of sort

noun
  1. A general type.
  2. Manner; form of being or acting.
  3. Condition above the vulgar; rank.
  4. A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).
  5. Group, company.
  6. A good-looking woman.
  7. An act of sorting.
    I had a sort of my cupboard.
  8. An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
    Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.
  9. A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
  10. A type.
  11. Chance; lot; destiny.
  12. A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.
verb
  1. To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
    Sort the letters in those bags into a separate pile for each language.
  2. To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
    Sort those bells into a row in ascending sequence of pitch.
  3. To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
  4. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
  5. To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
  6. To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
  7. To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
  8. To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
  9. To attack physically.
    If he comes nosing around here again I'll sort him!

Information about sort

Hyphenation of sort

sort

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • sort is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

sort synonyms

Meaning kind:

kind, form, variety

Meaning sorting:

sorting

Meaning screen:

screen, sieve

Meaning classify:

classify, class, assort, separate

Meaning :

algorithm, character, individual, person, type, genre, genus, glyph, categorize, group, order, rank

Translation of sort

Anagrams of sort

orts, Rost, rost, rots, stor, tors, Tros

Words that rhyme with sort

alphasort, subsort, besort, coresort, preresort, presort, resort, isort, consort, unsort, undersort, assort, missort, reassort, ressort, ssort

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