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NOUN | 1 | sort, kind, form, variety | A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality |
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2 | sort | An approximate definition or example | |
3 | sort | A person of a particular character or nature | |
4 | sort, sorting | An operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion | |
VERB | 1 | sort, screen, screen out, sieve | Examine in order to test suitability |
2 | sort, classify, class, assort, sort out, separate | Arrange or order by classes or categories |
Sounds | sao'rt |
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Rhymes | abort, Agincourt, airport, and 45 more rhymes in aort at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality. |
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Synonyms | kind, form, variety |
Narrower | description; type; antitype; art form; style; flavor, flavour; color, colour; species; genus; brand, make; genre; ilk; manner; model; stripe; the like, the likes of |
Broader | category |
Verbs | sort |
Meaning | An approximate definition or example. |
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Examples | "she wore a sort of magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert thing" |
Broader | similarity |
Meaning | A person of a particular character or nature. |
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Examples | "what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort" |
Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul |
Meaning | An operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion. |
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Examples | "the bottleneck in mail delivery it the process of sorting" |
Synonyms | sorting |
Broader | operation |
Verbs | sort; sort |
Meaning | Examine in order to test suitability. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | screen, screen out, sieve |
Broader | choose, take, select, pick out |
Nouns | sort |
Meaning | Arrange or order by classes or categories. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | classify, class, assort, sort out, separate |
Entails | compare |
Entailed by | identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name |
Narrower | unitize, unitise; catalogue, catalog; isolate; refer; reclassify; size; dichotomize, dichotomise; pigeonhole, stereotype, stamp; group; grade; count, number |
Broader | categorize, categorise |
Nouns | sorter; sort, sorting; sorter; sort; sorting |