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The mail carrier sorts letters into different mail slots.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A category or type of people or things: A group sharing common qualities or characteristics.
    • A person of a particular character: Used to describe a person's nature or quality.
    • An approximate or vague example: Used to indicate something that is not easily defined or is an approximation.

  2. Verb:

    • To arrange items into categories: To separate and organize things based on shared characteristics.
    • To examine and classify: To evaluate items to test their suitability or to place them into ordered groups.
Examples

  • Noun:

    • What sort of music do you like? (Asking about a category or type)
    • He's a friendly sort. (Describing a person's character)
    • It's a sort of blue-green color. (Giving an approximate description)

  • Verb:

    • Please sort the laundry into lights and darks. (Arranging into categories)
    • The system will sort the data by date. (Organizing based on a criterion)
    • We need to sort the good apples from the bad ones. (Separating based on quality)
Advanced Usage
  • "of sorts": Used to indicate that something is a poor, inadequate, or unusual example of a category.
    • It was a meal of sorts, but we were still hungry.
  • "out of sorts": Feeling slightly unwell, irritable, or not in one's usual state.
    • She's been out of sorts all day.
  • "sort of" (adverbial): To some extent; rather; used to make a statement less definite or forceful. (Informal)
    • I'm sort of tired.
    • It was sort of funny.
Variants and Related Words
  • Sorter (n): A person or machine that sorts things.
    • A mail sorter.
  • Sorting (n): The action or process of classifying or arranging.
    • The sorting of recyclables is important.
Synonyms
  • Noun: Type, kind, variety, category, class, breed, ilk.
  • Verb: Classify, categorize, organize, arrange, separate, sift.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • Sort out:
    • To organize or resolve a problem or messy situation.
      • It took hours to sort out the paperwork.
    • To separate something from a group.
      • Can you sort out the red tiles?
    • (British English) To deal with someone who is causing problems.
      • I'll sort him out if he bothers you again.
  • Sort through: To look through a collection of things in order to find something or organize it.
    • She had to sort through a box of old letters.
Related Idioms
  • A good sort: (Informal, chiefly British) A likeable, reliable, or kind person.
    • Don't worry, he's a good sort.
  • It takes all sorts (to make a world): A saying meaning that people are very different and one must be tolerant of others' unusual qualities or behavior.
    • He collects bottle caps? Well, it takes all sorts.
sort

The mail carrier sorts letters into different mail slots.

Noun
  1. an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
    • the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting
  2. a person of a particular character or nature
    • what sort of person is he?
    • he's a good sort
  3. an approximate definition or example
    • she wore a sort of magenta dress
    • she served a creamy sort of dessert thing
  4. a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
    • sculpture is a form of art
    • what kinds of desserts are there?
Verb
  1. arrange or order by classes or categories
    • How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?
  2. examine in order to test suitability
    • screen these samples
    • screen the job applicants

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