sort.html - See: OF SORTS, IN A WAY also IN A SORT OF WAY.

sort.html - {adv. phr.}, {informal} Almost but not quite; rather. * /A guinea pig looks kind of like a rabbit, but it has short ears./ * /Bob was kind of tired when he finished the job./ * /The teacher sort of frowned but then smiled./ * /Mary wouldn't tell what she wanted to be when she grew up; it was sort of a secret./

sort.html - {adv. phr.}, {informal} Almost but not quite; rather. * /A guinea pig looks kind of like a rabbit, but it has short ears./ * /Bob was kind of tired when he finished the job./ * /The teacher sort of frowned but then smiled./ * /Mary wouldn't tell what she wanted to be when she grew up; it was sort of a secret./

sort.html - {v. phr.} 1. To alphabetize; arrange in numerical order. * /The secretary helped Professor Brown sort out his numerous index cards./ 2. To clarify. * /"Help me sort out these bills," she begged her husband./

sort.html - n. & v.
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1 a group of things etc. with common attributes; a class or kind.
2 (foll. by of) roughly of the kind specified (is some sort of doctor).
3 colloq. a person of a specified character or kind (a good sort).
4 Printing a letter or piece in a fount of type.
5 Computing the arrangement of data in a prescribed sequence.
6 archaic a manner or way.

--v.

tr. (often foll. by out, over) arrange systematically or according to type, class, etc.

after a sort after a fashion. in some sort to a certain extent. of a sort (or of sorts) colloq. not fully deserving the name (a holiday of sorts). out of sorts 1 slightly unwell.
2 in low spirits; irritable. sort of colloq. as it were; to some extent (I sort of expected it). sort out 1 separate into sorts.
2 select (things of one or more sorts) from a miscellaneous group.
3 disentangle or put into order.
4 resolve (a problem or difficulty).
5 colloq. deal with or reprimand (a person).

sortable adj. sorter n. sorting n. [ME f. OF sorte ult. f. L sors sortis lot, condition]

sort.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a sally, esp. from a besieged garrison.
2 an operational flight by a single military aircraft.

--v.

intr. (sorties, sortied, sortieing) make a sortie; sally. [F, fem. past part. of sortir go out]