Sort

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.

Manner; form of being or acting.

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.

an approximate definition or example; "she wore a sort of magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert thing"

a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?"

an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting"