A group of persons or things of the same general character; a kind.
Character or nature: books of all sorts.
One that exemplifies the characteristics of or serves a similar function to another: "A large dinner-party ... made a sort of general introduction for her to the society of the neighbourhood"(George Eliot).
A person; an individual: The clerk is a decent sort.
A way of acting or behaving.
sortsPrinting One of the characters in a font of type.
An act or instance of sorting: did a sort on the columns of data.
tr.v.
sort·ed, sort·ing, sorts
To arrange according to class, kind, or size; classify. See Synonyms at arrange.
To separate from others: sort out the wheat from the chaff.
To clarify by going over mentally: She tried to sort out her problems.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sors, sort-, lot; see ser-2 in Indo-European roots.] sort'a·ble adj., sort'er n.
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