Definition of Sort

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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.

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Sort Quotations

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
Walt Disney

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Aristotle

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest Hemingway

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.
George S. Patton

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Plato

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
Plato

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Jonathan Swift

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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