sort

sort amb tot

Inherited from Old Catalan sort, from Latin sors, sortem, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“bind”).


sort

under the table; done in secret so as to avoid taxation

sort (positive)
sortere (comparative)
sortest (superlative)
sorte (plural positive)
sortere (comparative plural)
sortest (plural superlative)
sorte (positive)
sorteste (superlative)

Norwegian Bokmål: sort

From Old Norse svartr (“black”), from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swerd- (“dirty, dark, black”).


sort

under the table; secretly, so as to avoid taxation


sort

head

sort c (singular definite sorten, plural indefinite sorter)

sorten (definite singular)
sorter (indefinite plural)
sort (indefinite nominative singular)
sorten (definite nominative singular)
sorter (indefinite nominative plural)
sorterne (definite nominative plural)
sorts (genitive indefinite singular)
sortens (definite genitive singular)
sorters (genitive indefinite plural)
sorternes (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sors (“lot, fate”).


sort

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
 Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.[…]”

1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.

2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:

Soon as the term of those six years shall cease,
Ye then shall hither back return again,
The marriage to accomplish vow’d betwixt you twain.
Which for my part, I covet to perform,
In sort as through the world I did proclaim,
That whoso kill’d that monster (most deform)
And him in hardy battle overcame,
Should have mine only daughter to his Dame […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Such is that argument whereby they that wore on their heads garlands are charged as transgressors of nature’s law, and guilty of sacrilege against God the Lord of nature, inasmuch as flowers, in such sort worn can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them; and God made flowers sweet and beautiful, that being seen and smelt unto, they might so delight.

1845, Richard Hooker, Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine […] :

I’ll deceive you in another sort

ca 1590, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus:

But to Adam in what sort
Shall I appeer? shall I to him make known
As yet my change, and give him to partake
Full happiness with mee, or rather not,
But keep the odds of Knowledge within my power
Without copartner?

I acknowledge, with Segrais, that I have not succeeded in this attempt, according to my desire: yet I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I may be allow’d to have copied the Clearness, the Purity, the Easiness and the Magnificence of his stile.

1697, John Dryden, The Works of John Dryden, Volume V: Poems, →ISBN:

Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

With the might of that throw Goldry’s wrath departed from him and left him strengthless, in such sort that he reeled as he went from the wrastling ground.

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 27:

(archaic) Manner, way; form of being or acting.

“What think you, Captain Fluellen? is it fit this soldier keep his oath?”
“He is a craven and a villain else, an’t please your majesty, in my conscience.”
“It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree.”
“Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath.”

(obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.

good sort, bad sort

There is no problem with this and he seems to be a decent sort with very good reflexes. I will have Felix replaced with him when we get back to Washington because he is more acceptable.

1999 October 24, Heinrich Müller, Müller Journals: 1948-1950, The Washington years:

Amo, he is the prince. And he is a good sort. You, My Husband, should be among his circle

2014, Mykel D. Myles, The Long Night Of The Demon, →ISBN:

One doesn't need to be Einstein to realize he is a bad sort / My wife always said as much.

(informal) A person evaluated in a certain way.

a sort of shepherds suing of the Chace

1595, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser:

a sort of doves were housed too near their hall

1687, John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther:

What good got you by wearing out your feet,
To run on scurvy errands to the poor,
and to bear mony to a sort of rogues
And lousy prisoners?

1622, Philip Massinger, The Virgin Martyr:

A boy, a child, and we a sort of us,
Vowed against his voyage, yet admit it thus!

1616, George Chapman, The Odysseys of Homer:

(British, Australia, informal) A good-looking woman.

I had a sort of my cupboard.

Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.

The fastest general algorithm we have considered that sorts keys in a stable manner is the list merge sort, but it does not use minimum storage

2014, Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming. Sorting and Searching, →ISBN:

(computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.

Green managed to recover a total of 151 sorts (the name for individual pieces of type) out of a possible 500,000.

2024 May 5, Holly Black, “Remnants of a Legendary Typeface Have Been Rescued From the River Thames”, in artnet:

(typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.

For he is groſſe and like the maſſie earth,
That mooues not vpwards, nor by princely deeds
Doth meane to ſoare aboue the highest ſort.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:

No, make a lottery;
And, by device, let blockish Ajax draw
The sort to fight with Hector.

c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida:

(obsolete) Anything used to determine the answer to a question by chance; lot.

(obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes or a suit of clothes.

tri m (but the phrase "to have a sort of" is more idiomatically translated by the verb "trier", to sort, or "ranger", to sort, to tidy)

From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (= Dutch soort, German Sorte, Danish sort, Swedish sort), borrowed from Old French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sortem, accusative form of sors (“lot, fate, share, rank, category”).


sort

Sort the letters in those bags into a separate pile for each language.

And seeing the Rays which differ in Refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another, and that either by Refraction..., or by Reflexion..., and then the several sorts apart at equal Incidences suffer unequal Refractions,...; it's manifest that the Sun's Light is an heterogeneous Mixture of Rays..., as was proposed.

"Is there a man among ye has the Gaelic? ... Is there a man among ye can speak English even? ... Is there a man among ye at all? Ye gang o' lasceevious auld de'ils, decked oot like weemin, in spite o' yer hairy long whuskers, full beards and full skirts, ye deceitful besoms. Whuskers and petticoats wi' the vices o' both and the virtues o' neither. I'll sorrt ye." And there were sounds of alarums and excursions within.

1929, Percival Christopher Wren, Good Gestes, The McSnorrt Reminiscent:

Jaime finally leaves her [Cersei], walking right past his imminent executioner, and rides out of King’s Landing, finally neatly sorting our humans into good and evil and Bronn.

2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:

en:separate according to certain criteria

(transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.

Sort those bells into a row in ascending sequence of pitch.

(transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.

Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insecta.

1635, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie in Ten Centuries:

For when she sorts things present with things past
And thereby things to come doth oft foresee;
When she doth doubt at first, and chuse at last,
These acts her owne, without her body bee.

(transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.

I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience.

ca 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 2:

(transitive, obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.

To send his mother to her father's house, that he may sort her out a worthy spouse

I'll sort some other time to visit you.

ca 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 1:

(transitive, obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.

The illiberality of Parents in allowance towards their children is an harmefull error: makes them base; acquaints them with shifts, makes them sort with meane companie; and makes them surfet more, when they come to plenty.

1625, Francis Bacon, Of Parents and Children:

Nor do Metalls only sort and herd with Metalls in the Earth : and Minerals with Minerals : but both indifferently and in common together: Iron with Vitriol, with Alum, with Sulphur: Copper with Sulphur, with Vitriol, &c. yea Iron, Copper, Lead, Nitre, Sulphur, Vitriol, and perhaps some more in one and the same Mass.

1695, John Woodward, An essay toward a natural history of the earth:

(intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.

They are happie men, whose natures sort with their vocations, otherwise they may say Multum incola fuit anima mea; when they converse in those things they doe not affect.

I cannot tell ye precisely how they sorted; but they agreed sae right that Donald was invited to dance at the wedding in his Highland trews, and they said that there was never sae meikle siller clinked in his purse either before or since.

(intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.

‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming [title]

2024 February 25, Donna Ferguson, “‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming”, in The Observer:

(British, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).

If he comes nosing around here again I'll sort him!

(British, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.

en-verb

sort (third-person singular simple present sorts, present participle sorting, simple past and past participle sorted)

sorts (present singular third-person)
sorting (participle present)
sorted (participle past)
sorted (past)
sort (infinitive)

From Middle English sorten, from Old French sortir (“to allot, sort”), from Latin sortīre (“draw lots, divide, choose”), from sors.


sort

sordi (genitive)
sorti (partitive)
sort (nominative singular)
sordid (nominative plural)
sort (accusative nominative singular)
sordid (accusative nominative plural)
sordi (accusative genitive singular)
sordid (accusative genitive plural)
sordi (genitive singular)
sortide (genitive plural)
sorti (partitive singular)
sorte (partitive plural)
sortisid (partitive plural)
sorti (illative singular)
sordisse (illative singular)
sortidesse (illative plural)
sordesse (illative plural)
sordis (inessive singular)
sortides (inessive plural)
sordes (inessive plural)
sordist (elative singular)
sortidest (elative plural)
sordest (elative plural)
sordile (allative singular)
sortidele (allative plural)
sordele (allative plural)
sordil (adessive singular)
sortidel (adessive plural)
sordel (adessive plural)
sordilt (ablative singular)
sortidelt (ablative plural)
sordelt (ablative plural)
sordiks (singular translative)
sortideks (plural translative)
sordeks (plural translative)
sordini (singular terminative)
sortideni (plural terminative)
sordina (essive singular)
sortidena (essive plural)
sordita (abessive singular)
sortideta (abessive plural)
sordiga (comitative singular)
sortidega (comitative plural)


sort

Je suis tombé amoureux de lui depuis le premier jour où je l’ai vu. C’était le sort.

I fell in love with him since the first day I laid eyes on him. It was destiny.

fate, destiny (consequences or effects predetermined by past events or a divine will)

lot (something used in determining a question by chance)

Inherited from Old French sort, from Latin sortem, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”). Cf. also the borrowed doublet sorte.


sort

third-person singular present indicative of sortir


sort

shorts (pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees)

sortok (plural)
sort (nominative singular)
sortok (nominative plural)
sortot (accusative singular)
sortokat (accusative plural)
sortnak (dative singular)
sortoknak (dative plural)
sorttal (instrumental singular)
sortokkal (instrumental plural)
sortért (causal-final singular)
sortokért (causal-final plural)
sorttá (singular translative)
sortokká (plural translative)
sortig (singular terminative)
sortokig (plural terminative)
sortként (essive-formal singular)
sortokként (essive-formal plural)
sortban (inessive singular)
sortokban (inessive plural)
sorton (singular superessive)
sortokon (plural superessive)
sortnál (adessive singular)
sortoknál (adessive plural)
sortba (illative singular)
sortokba (illative plural)
sortra (singular sublative)
sortokra (plural sublative)
sorthoz (allative singular)
sortokhoz (allative plural)
sortból (elative singular)
sortokból (elative plural)
sortról (delative singular)
sortokról (delative plural)
sorttól (ablative singular)
sortoktól (ablative plural)
sorté (singular)
sortoké (plural)
sortéi (singular)
sortokéi (plural)
sortom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
sortjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
sortod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
sortjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
sortja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
sortjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
sortunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
sortjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
sortotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
sortjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
sortjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
sortjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


sort

is-noun

sort f (genitive singular sortar, nominative plural sortir)

sortar (genitive singular)
sortir (nominative plural)
sort (indefinite nominative singular)
sortin (definite nominative singular)
sortir (indefinite nominative plural)
sortirnar (definite nominative plural)
sort (accusative indefinite singular)
sortina (accusative definite singular)
sortir (accusative indefinite plural)
sortirnar (accusative definite plural)
sort (dative indefinite singular)
sortinni (dative definite singular)
sortum (dative indefinite plural)
sortunum (dative definite plural)
sortar (genitive indefinite singular)
sortarinnar (definite genitive singular)
sorta (genitive indefinite plural)
sortanna (definite genitive plural)


sort

From Old French sort, from Latin sors, sortem.


sort

head

sort (neuter singular sort, definite singular and plural sorte, comparative sortere, indefinite plural sortest, definite plural sorteste)

sort (neuter singular)
sorte (definite plural singular)
sortere (comparative)
sortest (indefinite plural)
sorteste (definite plural)

From Danish sort, from Old Danish sort, swort, swart, from Old Norse svartr, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swordo- (“dirty, dark, black”).


sort

sorten (definite singular)
sorter (indefinite plural)
sortene (definite plural)


sort

sorten (definite singular)
sortar (indefinite plural)
sortane (definite plural)


sort

sort (nominative singular)
sorty (nominative plural)
sortu (genitive singular)
sortów (genitive plural)
sortowi (dative singular)
sortom (dative plural)
sort (accusative singular)
sorty (accusative plural)
sortem (instrumental singular)
sortami (instrumental plural)
sorcie (locative singular)
sortach (locative plural)
sorcie (singular vocative)
sorty (plural vocative)


sort

sorturi (plural)
sort (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
sortul (accusative definite nominative singular)
sorturi (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
sorturile (accusative definite nominative plural)
sort (indefinite singular)
sortului (definite singular)
sorturi (indefinite singular)
sorturilor (definite plural)
sortule (singular vocative)
sorturilor (vocative)


sort

Jag vill ha den andra sorten

Vi har tio sorters kakor

Det är en sorts protest

Vad för sorts fågel är det där?

sort (indefinite nominative singular)
sorts (genitive indefinite singular)
sorten (definite nominative singular)
sortens (definite genitive singular)
sorter (indefinite nominative plural)
sorters (genitive indefinite plural)
sorterna (definite nominative plural)
sorternas (definite genitive plural)