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sort
  1. A general type.
  2. Manner; form of being or acting.
  3. (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
  4. (dated) Group, company.
  5. (informal) A person.
  6. An act of sorting.
  7. (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
  8. (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
  9. (mathematics) A type.
  10. (obsolete) Chance; lot; destiny.
  11. (obsolete) A pair; a set; a suit.
  12. Synonyms:
  13. Examples:
    1. “This sort of horse is very commonly employed in the business of farming in the Southern districts of the island.”
      “He seemed to be just the right sort for the job.”
sorter
  1. A person employed to sort.
  2. A machine or algorithm that performs sorting.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Every few months, when his piggy bank is full, we take it to a real bank, run it through the coin sorter, change the total into bills.”
      “Maximum duty cycle is 65,000 pages per month and finishing options including sorter, stapler, feeder and duplex modes are available.”
      “I s'pose the wimmin git some sorter fun, wiv all this guyver, an' 'is nibs's shirt.”
sorting
sortes
  1. divination, or the seeking of guidance, by chance selection of a passage in the Bible or another text regarded as authoritative.
  2. Examples:
    1. “And what greater absurditie can there bee, then to say that one cure shall serue for diuers, nay, contrarious sortes of diseases?”
      “And of it ther be tuoe sortes, the one enunciative, and the other ratiocinative.”
      “O my Lord, the young Ofelia Having made a garland of sundry sortes of floures, Sitting vpon a willow by a brooke, The envious sprig broke, into the brooke she fell.”
sortable
  1. (graphical user interface) A component that allows a sequence of items to be reordered via drag and drop.
sortal
  1. (philosophy) A type of universal that defines a particular sort of object
sorte
  1. Obsolete form of sort.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In such sorte as to marry her I forgat all feare of friendes, and brought her hither in despite of her parentes.”
      “As plesaunt to the ere as the blacke sanctus Of a sad sorte vpon a mery pyn.”
      “In the daies of Eroude, kyng of Judee, ther was a prest, Sakarie bi name, of the sorte of Abia, and his wijf was of the douytris of Aaron, and hir name was Elizabeth.”
sortables
  1. plural of sortable
sortings
sortals
  1. plural of sortal
sorters
  1. plural of sorter
  2. Examples:
    1. “Everyone was great, most of the wool sorters were Bradfordians and I can't begin to say how good those days were.”
      “We still have an IBM card reader, card punch, a couple of 083 sorters, and a couple of 129 keypunches.”
      “By definition, it's a messy job for the sorters, and anything in a plastic bag goes straight to landfill.”
sorts
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