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[sɔːt], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a category of things or people with a common feature; a type
(e.g: if only we knew the sort of people she was mixing with)
- the arrangement of data in a prescribed sequence
- a manner or way
(e.g: in law also the Judge is in a sort superior to his King)
- a letter or piece in a font of type
Phrases:
- after a sort
- in some sort
- it takes all sorts to make a world
- nothing of the sort
- of a sort
- out of sorts
- sort of
- sort out the men from the boys
- the — sort
Origin
:
late Middle English: from Old French sorte, from an alteration of Latin sors, sort- ‘lot, condition’
[sɔːt], (Verb)
Definitions:
- arrange systematically in groups; separate according to type
(e.g: the mail was sorted)
- resolve (a problem or difficulty)
(e.g: the problem with the engine was soon sorted)
Phrases:
- after a sort
- in some sort
- it takes all sorts to make a world
- nothing of the sort
- of a sort
- out of sorts
- sort of
- sort out the men from the boys
- the — sort
Origin
:
late Middle English: from Old French sorte, from an alteration of Latin sors, sort- ‘lot, condition’
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