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Meaning Of Sort

  1. n.
    Chance; lot; destiny.
  2. n.
    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.
  3. n.
    Manner; form of being or acting.
  4. n.
    Condition above the vulgar; rank.
  5. n.
    A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
  6. n.
    A pair; a set; a suit.
  7. n.
    Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
  8. v. t.
    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.
  9. v. t.
    To reduce to order from a confused state.
  10. v. t.
    To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
  11. v. t.
    To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
  12. v. t.
    To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
  13. v. i.
    To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
  14. v. i.
    To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.



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