sort

About 59.39 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A general type.
2. noun Manner, way; form of being or acting.
3. noun Condition above the vulgar; rank.
4. noun A person evaluated in a certain way.

   good sort, bad sort

5. noun Group, company.
6. noun A good-looking woman.
7. noun An act of sorting.

   I had a sort of my cupboard.

8. noun An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.

   Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.

Similar words

classify assort class form kind sort out variety separate screen screen out

Often followed by

of out that is the or and are to

Word family

sortable sorted sorter sorters sorting sorts