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- [sawrt]
- /sɔrt/
- /sɔːt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [sawrt]
- /sɔrt/
Definitions of sort word
- noun sort a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort. 1
- noun sort character, quality, or nature: young people of a nice sort. 1
- noun sort an example of something that is undistinguished or barely adequate: He is a sort of poet. 1
- noun sort manner, fashion, or way: We spoke in this sort for several minutes. 1
- noun sort Printing. any of the individual characters making up a font of type. characters of a particular font that are rarely used. 1
- noun sort an instance of sorting. 1
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Origin of sort
First appearance:
before 1200 One of the 9% oldest English words
1200-50; (noun) Middle English < Middle French sorte < Medieval Latin sort- (stem of sors) kind, allotted status or portion, lot, Latin: orig., voter's lot; (v.) Middle English sorten to allot, arrange, assort (< Middle French sortir) < Latin sortīrī to draw lots, derivative of sors; later senses influenced by the noun and by assort
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Parts of speech for Sort
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
sort popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
sort usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for sort
verb sort
- adjust — When you adjust to a new situation, you get used to it by changing your behaviour or your ideas.
- arrange — If you arrange an event or meeting, you make plans for it to happen.
- break down — If a machine or a vehicle breaks down, it stops working.
- button down — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
- calibrate — If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.
noun sort
- assortment — An assortment is a group of similar things that are of different sizes or colours or have different qualities.
- baccalaureate — The baccalaureate is an examination taken by students at the age of eighteen in France and some other countries.
- breed — A breed of a pet animal or farm animal is a particular type of it. For example, terriers are a breed of dog.
- category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
- character — The character of a person or place consists of all the qualities they have that make them distinct from other people or places.
Antonyms for sort
verb sort
- burn up — If something burns up or if fire burns it up, it is completely destroyed by fire or strong heat.
- disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
- disarrayed — Simple past tense and past participle of disarray.
noun sort
- one — being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather than two or more; a single: one woman; one nation; one piece of cake.
- missort — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
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