sort

1. Sort
   A pair; a set; a suit.
2. Sort
   Condition above the vulgar; rank.
3. Sort
   To choose from a number; to select; to cull. "That he may sort out a worthy spouse.", "I'll sort some other time to visit you."
4. Sort
   To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. "I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience."
5. Sort
   To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. "Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects.", "She sorts things present with things past."
6. Sort
   To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree. "Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals.", "The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company."
7. Sort
   To reduce to order from a confused state.
8. Sort
   To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize. "They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations.", "Things sort not to my will.", "I can not tell you precisely how they sorted ."

1. (n) sort
   A lot; that which is awarded or determined by lot; hence, in general, one's fate, fortune, or destiny.
2. (n) sort
   Allotted station or position; condition; rank; specifically, high rank; social eminence.
3. (n) sort
   Characteristic mode of being; nature; quality; character.
4. (n) sort
   A number of persons, things, ideas, etc., grouped together according to the possession of common attributes; a kind, as determined by nature, quality, character, or habits; a species; a class.
5. (n) sort
   Specifically— A particular class or order of people.
6. (n) sort
   In printing, one of the characters or pieces in a font of type, considered with reference to its relative supply or lack: nearly always in the plural: as, to be out of sorts (that is, to lack some of the necessary types in a case); to order sorts for a font (that is, to order more of the kinds of type of which it is deficient).
7. (n) sort
   Kind: used indefinitely of something more or less resembling the thing specified: with of, like kind of. See kind, n., 5, and compare sort of below.
8. (n) sort
   A number or quantity of things of the same kind or used together; a set; a suit.
9. (n) sort
   A group; a flock; a troop; a company.
10. (n) sort
    Particular mode of action or procedure; manner; fashion; way.
11. (n) sort
    Out of health or spirits; out of the normal condition of body or mind; cross.
12. (n) sort
    In printing, short of one or more characters in type: said of a compositor, or of his case.
13. (n) sort
    [Sort, like kind, is often erroneously used in the singular form with a plural force and connection. Compare kind.
14. (n) sort
    Synonyms Kind, Sort, Kind is by derivation a deeper or more serious word than sort; sort is often used slightingly, while kind is rarely so used.
15. sort
    To give or appoint by lot; hence, in general, to allot; assign.
16. sort
    To ordain; decree.
17. sort
    To select; choose; pick out.
18. sort
    To set apart; assign to a particular place or station; rank; class.
19. sort
    To separate into sorts; arrange according to kind; classify: sometimes with over.
20. sort
    To conform; accommodate; adapt; suit.
21. sort
    To put in the proper state or order; set right; adjust; dispose.
22. sort
    To supply in suitable sorts; assort.
23. sort
    To procure; obtain; attain; reach.
24. sort
    To punish; chastise.
25. sort
    To cast lots; decide or divine anything by lot; hence, in general, to practise divination or soothsaying.
26. sort
    To come to pass; chance; happen; turn out; specifically, to have a satisfactory issue; succeed.
27. sort
    To tend; lead; conduce.
28. sort
    To be of the same sort or class (with another); be like or comparable; consort; associate; agree; harmonize: with with, rarely to.
29. sort
    To be suitable or favorable.

1. (n) Sort
   sort a number of persons or things having like qualities: class, kind, or species: order or rank: manner
2. (v.t) Sort
   to separate into lots or classes: to put together: to select: to procure, adapt: to geld:
3. (v.i) Sort
   to be joined with others of the same sort: to associate: to suit
4. (v.t) Sort
   (Scot.) to adjust, put right, dispose, fix: to punish

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