Dictionary Entry
sort
sort is a 4-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Chance; lot; destiny. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Chance; lot; destiny.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
Manner; form of being or acting.
- 4noun
Condition above the vulgar; rank.
- 5noun
A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
- 6noun
A pair; a set; a suit.
- 7noun
Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
- 8transitive verb
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.
- 9transitive verb
To reduce to order from a confused state.
- 10transitive verb
To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
- 11transitive verb
To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
- 12transitive verb
To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
- 13intransitive verb
To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
- 14intransitive verb
To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
- 15noun
an approximate definition or example
"she wore a sort of magenta dress"
"she served a creamy sort of dessert thing"
- 16noun
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
"sculpture is a form of art"
"what kinds of desserts are there?"
- 17noun
a person of a particular character or nature
"what sort of person is he?"
"he's a good sort"
- 18noun
an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
"the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting"
Synonyms
- 19verb
arrange or order by classes or categories
"How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
- 20verb
examine in order to test suitability
"screen these samples"
"screen the job applicants"
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