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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 |