Meaning

13 senses

  1. A general type.

  2. (informal)A person evaluated in a certain way.

    good sort, bad sort

    типtip

  3. (Australia, UK, informal)A good-looking woman.

  4. An act of sorting.

    I had a sort of my cupboard.

    сортиро́вкаsortiróvka

  5. An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.

    Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.

    сортиро́вкаsortiróvka, алгори́тм сортиро́вкиalgorítm sortiróvki

    an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion

  6. A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.

    Letter

    a person of a particular character or nature

  7. A type.

    Art, Sorte

    типtip, сортsort, видvid

    типtyp, сортsort, видvyd

  8. (archaic)Manner, way; form of being or acting.

  9. (obsolete)Condition above the vulgar; rank.

  10. (obsolete)Group, company.

  11. (obsolete)Fate, fortune, destiny.

  12. (obsolete)Anything used to determine the answer to a question by chance; lot.

Examples

999 sentences

  1. What sort of man is Tom?

    Що за людина Том?

    ruЧто за человек Том?

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  2. We'll help you sort it out.

    Ми допоможемо вам із цим розібратися.

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  3. What sort of work do you do?

    Що в тебе за робота?

    ruКакого рода работу вы делаете?

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  4. What sort of person would do that kind of thing?

    Якою має бути людина, щоб зробити таке?

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  5. I'm too old for this sort of thing.

    Я для такого застарий.

    ruЯ слишком стар для таких вещей.

    deIch bin zu alt für diese Art von Sachen.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
type:
Русский
By meaning 4
person:
act of sorting:
computing algorithm:
type:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
(typography) metal type:
type:

Origin

From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (cognate Dutch soort, German Sorte, Danish sort, Sw

From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (cognate Dutch soort, German Sorte, Danish sort, Swedish sort), borrowed from Old French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sortem, accusative form of sors (“lot, fate, share, rank, category”).

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Forms

plural: sorts
Singularsort
Pluralsorts

regular

Synonyms

13 synonyms
type:genreB2kindA1typeA1varietyB1genus
characterA1individualB2personA1
act of sorting:sort-out
in computing:sort algorithmsorting algorithm
Close in meaning
  • an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion:sorting
  • a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality:kindformvariety

Word family

18 related words
Derivedallsortsheapsortmergesortquicksortsmoothsorttimsortin sortsortasort ofcopy sortcycle sortgood sortmiddling sortmissortpicture sortsortalsort codetopological sort

Collocations

12 patterns
  • sort of thing
  • the sort of
  • what sort of
  • this sort of
  • that sort of
  • sorted sorted
  • sorted sorted out
  • all sorts of
  • some sort of
  • isn't the sort
  • sort of man
  • some sort

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sorryA1sortedsossoteriology
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