sort

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Noun

1. A general type.
2. Manner, way; form of being or acting.
3. Condition above the vulgar; rank.
4. A person evaluated in a certain way.
   • good sort, bad sort
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. Fate, fortune, destiny.
12. Anything used to determine the answer to a question by chance; lot.
13. 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!
10. To geld.

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