sort
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1.3
- noun
- /sɔrt/
:
clasificación
- In my travels, I've seen all sorts of celebrations.
- a word sort
- a sort specification
- a sort point
Examples
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Disability has an impact on what sort of services a patient is likely to need.
Academic text (2015) -
The idea was for Plan R to be a sort of retaliatory safeguard.
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By the end of World War II, discrimination of this sort had greatly diminished.
Academic text (1999) -
What results from speculations of this sort will lack analytical rigor and may be contestable.
Academic text (1990) -
The librarian uses a special method to sort books according to their genres.
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We need to sort these documents into different folders before the meeting.
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At the recycling center, employees sort materials into categories for processing.
Synonyms
135
2.7
The way things are placed or organized in a place
72
2.7
Arranging people or things in a neat, planned order
22
2.0
A way of arranging things into groups by shared features
20
2.5
Putting people and things together because they are similar or have the same purpose
19
3.7
The process of putting things into groups by shared features
18
2.7
Arranging things in a particular sequence so they are easy to find
8
3.2
The act of putting things into different groups
5
4.1
Putting things like steps or events in a particular order
5
3.2
An action that puts things into groups by type
2
3.2
To put things in a different order
1
8.0
Dividing something into separate parts to keep things organized
1
4.8
Putting items into groups that have the same features
Putting things in a certain order by time, size, or other features
An act of putting things in a new order to change where they are
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Etymology
Sort comes from an old Latin word sors that meant 'lot' or 'fate'. People used 'lots' to divide or choose things, so a sort came to mean the action of putting items into groups or separating them by type.