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Definition of Sort

Sort Chance; lot; destiny. A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems. Manner; form of being or acting. Condition above the vulgar; rank. A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals. A pair; a set; a suit. Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered. To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness. To reduce to order from a confused state. To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. To choose from a number; to select; to cull. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree. To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize. Related Definitions: Above, Accommodate, Accord, According, Acting, Adapt, Agree, Also, An, And, Any, As, Assemblage, Associate, Be, Being, Belonging, By, Case, Chance, Characterized, Choose, Class, Classes, Cloths, Collection, Company, Condition, Conform, Confused, Conjoin, Considered, Cull, Destiny, Different, Distinct, Distribution, Fineness, Fit, Form, From, Group, Happen, Harmonize, Having, In, Individual, Join, Kind, Like, Lot, Manner, Men, Number, Of, Or, Order, Pair, Place, Put, Qualities, Rank, Reduce, Same, Select, Separate, Set, Sort, Species, State, Suit, The, Their, Thread, To, Together, Troop, Vulgar, Who, With, Wool

Sort Quotations But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile. Michael T. Thomas I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what. Jack Prelutsky People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. Gilbert K. Chesterton Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. Samuel Taylor Coleridge It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. George Bernard Shaw

Sort Translations sort in Afrikaans is soort sort in Danish is art sort in Dutch is soort, slag, aard sort in Finnish is laji sort in German is Art {f}, Gattung {f}, sortieren, Sortierung {f} sort in Italian is fare, sorta, razza, assortire sort in Latin is genus sort in Swedish is sortera, ordna, sortera, sort

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