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How to pronounce sort
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What does sort mean?
nounA general type.
Manner, way; form of being or acting.
“I’ll deceive you in another sort”
Condition above the vulgar; rank.
verbTo separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
“Sort the letters in those bags into a separate pile for each language.”
To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
“Sort those bells into a row in ascending sequence of pitch.”
To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
“Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insecta.”
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