sort

/sɔːt//sɔɹt/

noun

1
A general type.
2
Manner; form of being or acting.
3
Condition above the vulgar; rank.
4
A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).
5
Group, company.
6
A good-looking woman.
7
An act of sorting.
“I had a sort of my cupboard.”
8
An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
“Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.”
9
A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
10
A type.
11
Chance; lot; destiny.
12
A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.

1
To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
“Sort the letters in those bags into a separate pile for each language.”
2
To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
“Sort those bells into a row in ascending sequence of pitch.”
3
To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
4
To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
5
To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
6
To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
7
To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
8
To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
9
To attack physically.
“If he comes nosing around here again I'll sort him!”

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