Dictionary entry details
• SORT (noun)
Meaning:
A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
kind; sort; form; variety
Context examples:
sculpture is a form of art / what kinds of desserts are there?
Hypernyms ("sort" is a kind of...):
category (a general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sort"):
description (sort or variety)
like; the like; the likes of (a similar kind)
stripe (a kind or category)
model (a type of product)
manner (a kind)
ilk; like (a kind of person)
genre (a kind of literary or artistic work)
brand; make (a recognizable kind)
genus (a general kind of something)
species (a specific kind of something)
type (a subdivision of a particular kind of thing)
antitype (an opposite or contrasting type)
art form ((architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture))
style (a particular kind (as to appearance))
flavor; flavour ((physics) the six kinds of quarks)
color; colour ((physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors)
Meaning:
An approximate definition or example
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context examples:
she wore a sort of magenta dress / she served a creamy sort of dessert thing
Hypernyms ("sort" is a kind of...):
similarity (the quality of being similar)
Meaning:
A person of a particular character or nature
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Context examples:
what sort of person is he? / he's a good sort
Hypernyms ("sort" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Meaning:
An operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
sorting; sort
Context example:
the bottleneck in mail delivery it the process of sorting
Hypernyms ("sort" is a kind of...):
operation ((computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction))
• SORT (verb)
Meaning:
Examine in order to test suitability
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
screen out; sieve; sort; screen
Context examples:
screen these samples / screen the job applicants
Hypernyms (to "sort" is one way to...):
choose; pick out; select; take (pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Arrange or order by classes or categories
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
sort out; classify; class; sort; assort; separate
Context example:
How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?
Hypernyms (to "sort" is one way to...):
categorise; categorize (place into or assign to a category)
"Sort" entails doing...:
compare (examine and note the similarities or differences of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sort"):
grade (determine the grade of or assign a grade to)
group (arrange into a group or groups)
pigeonhole; stamp; stereotype (treat or classify according to a mental stereotype)
dichotomise; dichotomize (divide into two opposing groups or kinds)
size (sort according to size)
reclassify (classify anew, change the previous classification)
refer (think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another)
isolate (separate (experiences) from the emotions relating to them)
catalog; catalogue (make an itemized list or catalog of; classify)
unitise; unitize (separate or classify into units)
count; number (put into a group)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
