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Definitions & Usage
A general type.
(archaic) Manner, way; form of being or acting.
(obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
(informal) A person evaluated in a certain way.
(British, Australia, informal) A good-looking woman.
An act of sorting.
(computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
(typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
(mathematics) A type.
(obsolete) Fate, fortune, destiny.
(obsolete) Anything used to determine the answer to a question by chance; lot.
(obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes or a suit of clothes.
(transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
(transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
(transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
(transitive, obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
(transitive, obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
(intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
(intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
(British, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
(British, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.
(transitive) To geld.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.”
— 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
““[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.[…]””
— 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
“The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.”
— 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC: