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US
/ˈsɔɹt/
]
[ UK /sˈɔːt/ ]
[ UK /sˈɔːt/ ]
NOUN
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an approximate definition or example
she served a creamy sort of dessert thing
she wore a sort of magenta dress -
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
sculpture is a form of art
what kinds of desserts are there? -
an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting -
a person of a particular character or nature
what sort of person is he?
he's a good sort
VERB
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arrange or order by classes or categories
How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric? -
examine in order to test suitability
screen these samples
screen the job applicants
How To Use sort In A Sentence
- You would be hard pressed to find a young captain or major who hadn't flown combat sorties in the area of operations.
- 8. The reporters all want Obama to make the sort of inaccurate, snide, snipy comments that the Clintons are now firing off daily. Archive 2008-03-01
- They are very much secluded from the rest of Chiloe, and have scarcely any sort of commerce, except sometimes in a little oil, which they get from seal-blubber. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
- On the fives court, his nervous housemaster could relax, “rushing about,” as Roald described it, “shrieking what a little fool he is, and calling himself all sorts of names when he misses the ball.” Storyteller
- Letters from my family are sort of depressing, though sometimes my cousins write a few words that makes me laugh.
- The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- Oh - and I want a food mixer of some sort, because creaming butter and sugar by hand is not a lot of fun.
- When the effused lymph is not absorbed it organizes, either forming a sort of internal cicatrix which is harder than the surrounding tissues or increasing the density of the part by augmenting the amount of plastic material within it. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
- Fred Wye seemed like a decent sort of cuss, Peter thought, too bad his brother wasn't more like him. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
- You come along with me and I'll introduce you (he's not what you call a refined sort of feller, yer know, 'he explained forbearingly,' but still we've always been friends in a way); you can't stop? The Giant's Robe