By aventure, or sort, or cas [chance]. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Sort Sort, n. [F. sorie (cf. It. sorta, sorte), from L. sors, sorti, a lot, part, probably akin to serere to connect. See Series, and cf. Assort, Consort, Resort, Sorcery, Sort lot.] 1. A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems. [1913 Webster]
2. Manner; form of being or acting. [1913 Webster]
Which for my part I covet to perform, In sort as through the world I did proclaim. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
I ll deceive you in another sort. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
To Adam in what sort Shall I appear? --Milton. [1913 Webster]
I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
3. Condition above the vulgar; rank. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
4. A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals. [Obs.] ``A sort of shepherds. --Spenser. ``A sort of steers. --Spenser. ``A sort of doves. --Dryden. ``A sort of rogues. --Massinger. [1913 Webster]
A boy, a child, and we a sort of us, Vowed against his voyage. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
5. A pair; a set; a suit. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
6. pl. (Print.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered. [1913 Webster]
{Out of sorts} (Print.), with some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font; hence, colloquially, out of order; ill; vexed; disturbed.
{To run upon sorts} (Print.), to use or require a greater number of some particular letters, figures, or marks than the regular proportion, as, for example, in making an index. [1913 Webster]
Syn: Kind; species; rank; condition.
Usage: Sort, Kind. Kind originally denoted things of the same family, or bound together by some natural affinity; and hence, a class. Sort signifies that which constitutes a particular lot of parcel, not implying necessarily the idea of affinity, but of mere assemblage. the two words are now used to a great extent interchangeably, though sort (perhaps from its original meaning of lot) sometimes carries with it a slight tone of disparagement or contempt, as when we say, that sort of people, that sort of language. [1913 Webster]
As when the total kind Of birds, in orderly array on wing, Came summoned over Eden to receive Their names of there. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
None of noble sort Would so offend a virgin. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Sort Sort, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sorting.] 1. To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness. [1913 Webster]
Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
2. To reduce to order from a confused state. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
3. To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. [1913 Webster]
Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
She sorts things present with things past. --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster]
4. To choose from a number; to select; to cull. [1913 Webster]
That he may sort out a worthy spouse. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
I ll sort some other time to visit you. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
5. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. [R.] [1913 Webster]
I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Sort Sort, v. i. 1. To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree. [1913 Webster]
Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals. --Woodward. [1913 Webster]
The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
2. To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize. [1913 Webster]
They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Things sort not to my will. --herbert. [1913 Webster]
I can not tell you precisely how they sorted. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
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to french
sort [s??t] acabit, espèce, genre, sort
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to deutch
sort [s??t] Art, Gattung, Marke, Sorte, Sortierung
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Sortierprogramm
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sort genere, specie
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