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.
Definitions
- noun. Chance; lot; destiny.
- noun. 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.
- noun. Manner; form of being or acting.
- noun. Condition above the vulgar; rank.
- noun. A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
- noun. A pair; a set; a suit.
- noun. Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To reduce to order from a confused state.
- transitive verb. To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
- transitive verb. To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
- transitive verb. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
- intransitive verb. To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
- intransitive verb. To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
- noun. an approximate definition or example
"she wore a sort of magenta dress"
"she served a creamy sort of dessert thing"
- noun. a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
"sculpture is a form of art"
"what kinds of desserts are there?"
- noun. a person of a particular character or nature
"what sort of person is he?"
"he's a good sort"
- noun. an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
"the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting"
- verb. arrange or order by classes or categories
"How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
- verb. examine in order to test suitability
"screen these samples"
"screen the job applicants"
Synonyms
form, kind, variety, sorting, assort, class, classify, separate, screen, sieve
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sort:
Common word forms
sorts, sortal, sorted, sorter, sortes, sortly, sorting, sortable, sortment
Words from these letters
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