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noun
1.
A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality.  Synonyms: form, kind, variety.  "What kinds of desserts are there?"
2.
An approximate definition or example.  "She served a creamy sort of dessert thing"
3.
A person of a particular character or nature.  "He's a good sort"
4.
An operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion.  Synonym: sorting.
verb
(past & past part. sorted; pres. part. sorting)
1.
Examine in order to test suitability.  Synonyms: screen, screen out, sieve.  "Screen the job applicants"
2.
Arrange or order by classes or categories.  Synonyms: assort, class, classify, separate, sort out.



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... induce him to change his mind. Writing in the end of 1843 to his friend Watt, he had said: "There's no outlet for me when I begin to think of getting married but that of sending home an advertisement to the Evangelical Magazine, and if I get very old, it must be for some decent sort of widow. In the meantime I am too busy to think of any thing of the kind." But soon after the Moffats came back from England to Kuruman, their eldest daughter Mary rapidly effected a revolution in Livingstone's ideas of matrimony. ...
— The Personal Life Of David Livingstone • William Garden Blaikie
... o' the right sort. What say, Peter?" Peter was only too glad. The prospect of getting into a warm house was enough inducement, even without the further bliss of a couple ...
— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke
... out, tightly laced, and with a strip of crochet in the neck of her dress. What sort of oil or fatty substance she had plastered down her hair with may be left unsaid; but Silla in her brown straw hat and a plain white collar, felt for a moment insignificant beside her. But she quickly took her friend's arm; now they were off to ...
— One of Life's Slaves • Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie
... afford to sink shafts and wait for years before the gold appeared. These men, therefore, had to take small wages for toiling at a most laborious occupation. But most of them had learnt trades of some sort in Europe; and the idea sprang up that if the colony prevented boots from coming into it from outside there would be plenty of work for the bootmakers; if it stopped the importation of engines there would no longer be any reason why engineers should work like navvies at the bottom of gold ...
— History of Australia and New Zealand - From 1606 to 1890 • Alexander Sutherland
... make their feelings her own. Phoebe, on the other hand, in her serious poems held more closely to her own experiences. Both the sisters were very fond of children, though in a different way, Alice feeling for them a sort of mother-love, while Phoebe always felt toward them as though they were comrades. It is the genuine love for children which makes the children's stories and poems of Alice ...
— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester


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