sort

English

/sɔːt/, /sɔɹt/

noun
Definitions
  • A general type.
  • Manner; form of being or acting.
  • (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
  • (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).
  • (dated) Group, company.
  • (Australia) A good-looking woman.
  • An act of sorting.
  • (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
  • (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
  • (mathematics) A type.
  • (obsolete) Chance; lot; destiny.
  • (obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sort borrowed from Old French sorte (class, kind) derived from Latin sortem root from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (bind, flow, protect, watch over, run, put together, arrange, tie, thread, unite, tack, stream, grasp, tie together, take, preserve).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ser-

Gloss

bind, flow, protect, watch over, run, put together, arrange, tie, thread, unite, tack, stream, grasp, tie together, take, preserve

Concept
Semantic Field

Motion

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

糸

Emoji

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