- a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature:to develop a new sort of painting;nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- character, quality, or nature: young people of a nice sort.
- an example of something that is undistinguished or barely adequate: He is a sort of poet.
- manner, fashion, or way: We spoke in this sort for several minutes.
- Printing.
- any of the individual characters making up a font of type.
- characters of a particular font that are rarely used.
- an instance of sorting.
- to arrange according to sort, kind, or class; separate into sorts; classify: to sort socks; to sort eggs by grade.
- to separate or take from other sorts or from others (often followed by out): to sort the good from the bad;to sort out the children's socks.
- to assign to a particular class, group, or place (often followed by with, together, etc.): to sort people together indiscriminately.
- to provide with food and shelter.
- to place (records) in order, as numerical or alphabetical, based on the contents of one or more keys contained in each record.
- to suit; agree; fit.
- to associate, mingle, or be friendly.
- sort out,
- of sorts,
- of a mediocre or poor kind: a tennis player of sorts.
- of one sort or another; of an indefinite kind.
- out of sorts,
- in low spirits; depressed.
- in poor health; indisposed; ill.
- in a bad temper; irritable: to be out of sorts because of the weather.
- short of certain characters of a font of type.
- in a way; somewhat; rather: Their conversation was sort of tiresome.
- a class, group, kind, etc, as distinguished by some common quality or characteristic
- type of character, nature, etc
- a more or less definable or adequate example
- any of the individual characters making up a fount of type
- manner; way
- to some extent
- of sorts or of a sort
- of an inferior kind
- of an indefinite kind
- not in normal good health, temper, etc
- sort of informal
- in some way or other; as it were; rather
- used to express reservation or qualified assent
- to arrange according to class, type, etc
- to put (something) into working order
- to arrange (computer information) by machine in an order convenient to the computer user
- to supply, esp with drugs
- to associate, as on friendly terms
- to agree; accord
