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English noun: sort | |||
| 1. | sort (cognition) a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality | ||
| Samples | Sculpture is a form of art. What kinds of desserts are there?. | ||
| Synonyms | form, kind, variety | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | category | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | antitype, art form, brand, color, colour, description, flavor, flavour, genre, genus, ilk, like, like, make, manner, model, species, stripe, style, the like, the likes of, type | ||
| 2. | sort (attribute) an approximate definition or example | ||
| Samples | She wore a sort of magenta dress. She served a creamy sort of dessert thing. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | similarity | ||
| 3. | sort (person) a person of a particular character or nature | ||
| Samples | What sort of person is he?. He's a good sort. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | ||
| 4. | sort (process) an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion | ||
| Samples | The bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting. | ||
| Synonyms | sorting | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | operation | ||
English verb: sort | |||
| 1. | sort (social) examine in order to test suitability | ||
| Samples | Screen these samples. Screen the job applicants. | ||
| Synonyms | screen, screen out, sieve | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | choose, pick out, select, take | ||
| 2. | sort (cognition) arrange or order by classes or categories | ||
| Samples | How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?. | ||
| Synonyms | assort, class, classify, separate, sort out | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | categorise, categorize | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | catalog, catalogue, count, dichotomise, dichotomize, grade, group, isolate, number, pigeonhole, reclassify, refer, size, stamp, stereotype, unitise, unitize | ||
| Entail | compare | ||
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