sort
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1. sort - Noun
2. sort - Verb
Meaning
Chance; lot; destiny.
A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.
Condition above the vulgar; rank.
A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
A pair; a set; a suit.
Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.
To reduce to order from a confused state.
To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
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God tested Abraham. That is, he sent him afflictions for his benefit, not so that he could find out what sort of man he was, for God knows everything, but so that He give him the means to perfect his faith.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Concealed goodness is a sort of vice.
Just toss it in my hat and I'll sort it tomorrow.
He who adorns himself knows to what sort of dance he is going.