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sort

English

  1. 🔊 an approximate definition or example
    “she wore a sort of magenta dress”
  2. 🔊 a person of a particular character or nature
    “what sort of person is he?”
  3. 🔊 an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
    “the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting”
  4. 🔊 a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
    “sculpture is a form of art”
  5. 🔊 arrange or order by classes or categories
    “How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?”
  6. 🔊 examine in order to test suitability
    “screen these samples”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 ordenar to sort
  2. 🔊 suerte sort, kind, type

Similar words

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