Meaning of "sort" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SORT

From Old French, from Medieval Latin sors kind, from Latin: fate.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SORT

sort  [sɔːt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SORT

Sort is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb sort in English.

WHAT DOES SORT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sort

Sort may refer to: ▪ Sorting, any process of arranging items in sequence or in sets ▪ Sorting algorithm, any algorithm for arranging elements in lists ▪ Sort, a Unix utility which sorts the lines of a file ▪ Sort, a function in the C++ Standard Template Library ▪ SORT, peer-reviewed open access scientific journal ▪ Sort, a domain in a many-sorted structure ▪ Sort, a piece of metal type ▪ Sort, Lleida, a town in Catalonia ▪ Special Operations Response Team, a group trained to respond to disturbances at a correctional facility ▪ Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, a treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation ▪ Symantec Operations Readiness Tools, a web-based suite of services from Symantec Corporation...

Definition of sort in the English dictionary

The first definition of sort in the dictionary is a class, group, kind, etc, as distinguished by some common quality or characteristic. Other definition of sort is type of character, nature, etc. Sort is also a more or less definable or adequate example.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SORT

PRESENT

Present

I sort

you sort

he/she/it sorts

we sort

you sort

they sort

Present continuous

I am sorting

you are sorting

he/she/it is sorting

we are sorting

you are sorting

they are sorting

Present perfect

I have sorted

you have sorted

he/she/it has sorted

we have sorted

you have sorted

they have sorted

Present perfect continuous

I have been sorting

you have been sorting

he/she/it has been sorting

we have been sorting

you have been sorting

they have been sorting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I sorted

you sorted

he/she/it sorted

we sorted

you sorted

they sorted

Past continuous

I was sorting

you were sorting

he/she/it was sorting

we were sorting

you were sorting

they were sorting

Past perfect

I had sorted

you had sorted

he/she/it had sorted

we had sorted

you had sorted

they had sorted

Past perfect continuous

I had been sorting

you had been sorting

he/she/it had been sorting

we had been sorting

you had been sorting

they had been sorting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will sort

you will sort

he/she/it will sort

we will sort

you will sort

they will sort

Future continuous

I will be sorting

you will be sorting

he/she/it will be sorting

we will be sorting

you will be sorting

they will be sorting

Future perfect

I will have sorted

you will have sorted

he/she/it will have sorted

we will have sorted

you will have sorted

they will have sorted

Future perfect continuous

I will have been sorting

you will have been sorting

he/she/it will have been sorting

we will have been sorting

you will have been sorting

they will have been sorting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would sort

you would sort

he/she/it would sort

we would sort

you would sort

they would sort

Conditional continuous

I would be sorting

you would be sorting

he/she/it would be sorting

we would be sorting

you would be sorting

they would be sorting

Conditional perfect

I would have sort

you would have sort

he/she/it would have sort

we would have sort

you would have sort

they would have sort

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been sorting

you would have been sorting

he/she/it would have been sorting

we would have been sorting

you would have been sorting

they would have been sorting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you sort
we let´s sort
you sort

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to sort

Past participle

sorted

Present Participle

sorting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SORT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sort» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of sort

answer · arrange · assort · bloke · brand · breed · catalogue · categorize · category · chap · character · class · classify · clear up · crack · creature · customer · denomination · description · distribute · divide · family · fathom · file · genus · grade · group · human being · ilk · individual · kind · make · nature · order · person · quality · race · rank · resolve · separate · sequence · soul · species · stamp · style · systematize · tabulate · type · variety · work out

TRANSLATION OF SORT

Find out the translation of sort to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of sort from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sort» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 种类
• Translator English - Spanish: clase
• English: sort
• Translator English - Hindi: क्रमबद्ध
• Translator English - Arabic: نَوْع
• Translator English - Russian: сорт
• Translator English - Portuguese: espécie
• Translator English - Bengali: সাজান
• Translator English - French: sorte
• Translator English - Malay: Semak
• Translator English - German: Sorte
• Translator English - Japanese: 種類
• Translator English - Korean: 종류
• Translator English - Javanese: Urut
• Translator English - Vietnamese: loại
• Translator English - Tamil: வகையான
• Translator English - Marathi: क्रमवारी लावा
• Translator English - Turkish: çeşit
• Translator English - Italian: tipo
• Translator English - Polish: rodzaj
• Translator English - Ukrainian: вид
• Translator English - Romanian: fel
• Translator English - Greek: είδος
• Translator English - Afrikaans: soort
• Translator English - Swedish: sort
• Translator English - Norwegian: sort

10 QUOTES WITH «SORT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sort.

1

Richard Attenborough

I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.

2

Ginger Baker

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

3

Ann Bancroft

And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.

4

Tom Bennett

I have the sort of temperament where I try not to over think things, I don't get flustered and I don't panic. I'm not overly neurotic.

5

Dennis C. Blair

There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

6

Jayson Blair

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

7

Emily Blunt

After this interview, I'm going to immigration to try to sort out my Green Card, just like any other normal person.

8

Megan Boone

I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

9

Alexandra Cassavetes

I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick of Focus Features made the suggestion, I became obsessed all over again. I still am. I'll probably be this way until I'm 80, babbling about 'Z Channel.'

10

Pauline Collins

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SORT»

Discover the use of sort in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sort and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American is ...

How this came to be, and its dire implications for our country, is the subject of this ground-breaking work. In The Big Sort, Bishop has taken his analysis to a new level.

Bill Bishop, 2009

True (. . . Sort Of)

Ferris is a real mysturiosity (an extremely curious mystery). True: Katherine Hannigan's first novel since her acclaimed Ida B is a compelling look at the ways friendships and truths are discovered. It's all true ( . . . sort of).

Katherine Hannigan, 2011

The "Lower Sort": Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800

This book recreates the daily lives of laboring men and women in America's premier urban center during the second half of the eighteenth century.

Billy Gordon Smith, 1994

The Partisan Sort: How Liberals Became Democrats and ...

In The Partisan Sort, Matthew Levendusky reveals that we have responded to this trend—but not, for the most part, by becoming more extreme ourselves.

Matthew Levendusky, 2009

A Sort Of Life

In A Sort of Life Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulette, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he rashly resigned from The Times when his first novel, The Man ...

Graham Greene, 2011

"A Strange Sort of Being": The Transgender Life of Lucy Ann ...

"After leaving home, Lucy Ann Lobdell moved to the frontier, married a woman, and lived for sixty years as a man named "Joe.

Bambi L. Lobdell, 2011

Sort it Out!

In rhyming text, Pack the Packrat sorts his collection of trinkets in a variety of ways.

Barbara Mariconda, 2008

The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in ...

To be one of "the middling sort" in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce.

Margaret R. Hunt, 1996

Alice in Rapture, Sort Of

According to Pamela’s cousin in New Jersey, the worst thing that can happen to a girl is to start seventh grade without a boyfriend.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, 2012

Knowing, Not-knowing and Sort-of-knowing: Psychoanalysis and ...

Psychoanalysis.

Jean Petrucelli, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SORT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sort is used in the context of the following news items.

RTP workers take part in food bank 'Sort-A-Rama'

This year's Sort-A-Rama also marks the beginning of the "Stop Summer Hunger" campaign which aims to provide 3.2 million meals to area children during the ... «WTVD-TV, May 15»

Sort It expo helps job seekers find employers

More than 3000 students from Palmerston North, Manawatu, Rangitikei and Horowhenua are expected to explore career possibilities at the second Sort It expo ... «Manawatu Standard, May 15»

Now is the time to sort through your family attic

FIND THE KEEPSAKES: Sort through the family trinkets, photos and heirlooms while everyone is still able. I often hear people say that they are dreading the task ... «Stuff.co.nz, Feb 15»

Why This Image of a Black Demon Leading St. Francis Was Sort of a …

Image of the Week: The depictions of blackness as a sign of the devil in art began to fade as Spain and other countries became more familiar with those of ... «The Root, Jan 15»

World record set for 100 TB sort by open source and public cloud team

In October 2014, Databricks participated in the Sort Benchmark and set a new world record for sorting 100 terabytes (TB) of data, or 1 trillion 100-byte records. «opensource.com, Jan 15»

Copenhagen theatre Sort/Hvid burns down

The theatre changed its name from CaféTeatret to Sort/Hvid (Black/White) earlier this year to “match the vision the theatre has and the projects we create”, ... «The Local Denmark, Nov 14»

Spotify Adds "Sort You Music" To Get You Playlists In Order

Spotify logo For many, playlists are the new radio. But who has the time to endlessly sort all of the tracks you've added into a pleasing order or re-order them ... «hypebot.com, Oct 14»

Gerrymandering and the Big Sort Fallacy

Here's the problem with Cohn's analysis: It assumes that the Big Sort naturally will lead to district maps that minimize Democratic power. In hand-waving away ... «Slate Magazine, Sep 14»

Graceful cast saves 'Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle'

At first, “The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle” by Irish playwright Ross Dungan gives the impression of a short story that somehow fell into the submission ... «Los Angeles Times, Sep 14»

Novelist David Mitchell publishes new short story on Twitter

... author of Cloud Atlas, this morning turns to the "diabolical treble-strapped textual straitjacket" of Twitter for the first time to tell a new short story, The Right Sort. «The Guardian, Jul 14»