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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]


  sort
       
          1.  To arrange a collection of items
          in some specified order.  The items - records in a file or
          data structures in memory - consist of one or more fields or
          members.  One of these fields is designated as the "sort key"
          which means the records will be ordered according to the value
          of that field.  Sometimes a sequence of key fields is
          specified such that if all earlier keys are equal then the
          later keys will be compared.  Within each field some ordering
          is imposed, e.g. ascending or descending numerical, lexical
          ordering, or date.
       
          Sorting is the subject of a great deal of study since it is a
          common operation which can consume a lot of computer time.
          There are many well-known sorting algorithms with different
          time and space behaviour and programming complexity.
       
          Examples are quicksort, insertion sort, bubble sort,
          heap sort, and tree sort.  These employ many different
          data structures to store sorted data, such as arrays,
          linked lists, and binary trees.
       
          2.  The Unix utility program for sorting lines of
          files.
       
          Unix manual page: sort(1).
       
          (1997-02-12)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Sort \Sort\, n. [F. sorl, L. sors, sortis. See Sort kind.]
     Chance; lot; destiny. [Obs.]
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           By aventure, or sort, or cas [chance].   --Chaucer.
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           Let blockish Ajax draw
           The sort to fight with Hector.           --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Sort \Sort\, n. [F. sorie (cf. It. sorta, sorte), from L. sors,
     sorti, a lot, part, probably akin to serere to connect. See
     Series, and cf. Assort, Consort, Resort, Sorcery,
     Sort lot.]
     1. A kind or species; any number or collection of individual
        persons or things characterized by the same or like
        qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of
        horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.
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     2. Manner; form of being or acting.
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              Which for my part I covet to perform,
              In sort as through the world I did proclaim.
                                                    --Spenser.
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              Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor
              seen well by those that wear them.    --Hooker.
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              I'll deceive you in another sort.     --Shak.
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              To Adam in what sort
              Shall I appear?                       --Milton.
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              I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some
              sort I have copied his style.         --Dryden.
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     3. Condition above the vulgar; rank. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     4. A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be
        together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals. [Obs.]
        ``A sort of shepherds.'' --Spenser. ``A sort of steers.''
        --Spenser. ``A sort of doves.'' --Dryden. ``A sort of
        rogues.'' --Massinger.
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              A boy, a child, and we a sort of us,
              Vowed against his voyage.             --Chapman.
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     5. A pair; a set; a suit. --Johnson.
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     6. pl. (Print.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or
        quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
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     Out of sorts (Print.), with some letters or sorts of type
        deficient or exhausted in the case or font; hence,
        colloquially, out of order; ill; vexed; disturbed.
  
     To run upon sorts (Print.), to use or require a greater
        number of some particular letters, figures, or marks than
        the regular proportion, as, for example, in making an
        index.
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     Syn: Kind; species; rank; condition.
  
     Usage: Sort, Kind. Kind originally denoted things of the
            same family, or bound together by some natural
            affinity; and hence, a class. Sort signifies that
            which constitutes a particular lot of parcel, not
            implying necessarily the idea of affinity, but of mere
            assemblage. the two words are now used to a great
            extent interchangeably, though sort (perhaps from its
            original meaning of lot) sometimes carries with it a
            slight tone of disparagement or contempt, as when we
            say, that sort of people, that sort of language.
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                  As when the total kind
                  Of birds, in orderly array on wing,
                  Came summoned over Eden to receive
                  Their names of there.             --Milton.
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                  None of noble sort
                  Would so offend a virgin.         --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Sort \Sort\, v. i.
     1. To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the
        same kind or species; to agree.
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              Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the
              earth, and minerals with minerals.    --Woodward.
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              The illiberality of parents towards children makes
              them base, and sort with any company. --Bacon.
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     2. To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
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              They are happy whose natures sort with their
              vocations.                            --Bacon.
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              Things sort not to my will.           --herbert.
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              I can not tell you precisely how they sorted. --Sir
                                                    W. Scott.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Sort \Sort\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sorted; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Sorting.]
     1. To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions,
        as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths
        according to their colors; to sort wool or thread
        according to its fineness.
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              Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted
              and sorted from one another.          --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.
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     2. To reduce to order from a confused state. --Hooker.
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     3. To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
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              Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients,
              compared and sorted with insects.     --Bacon.
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              She sorts things present with things past. --Sir J.
                                                    Davies.
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     4. To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
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              That he may sort out a worthy spouse. --Chapman.
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              I'll sort some other time to visit you. --Shak.
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     5. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. [R.]
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              I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience. --Shak.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Sort \Sort\, n. [F. sorl, L. sors, sortis. See Sort kind.]
     Chance; lot; destiny. [Obs.]
  
           By aventure, or sort, or cas [chance].   --Chaucer.
  
           Let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector.
                                                    --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Sort \Sort\, n. [F. sorie (cf. It. sorta, sorte), from L. sors,
     sorti, a lot, part, probably akin to serere to connect. See
     Series, and cf. Assort, Consort, Resort, Sorcery,
     Sort lot.]
     1. A kind or species; any number or collection of individual
        persons or things characterized by the same or like
        qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of
        horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.
  
     2. Manner; form of being or acting.
  
              Which for my part I covet to perform, In sort as
              through the world I did proclaim.     --Spenser.
  
              Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor
              seen well by those that wear them.    --Hooker.
  
              I'll deceive you in another sort.     --Shak.
  
              To Adam in what sort Shall I appear?  --Milton.
  
              I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some
              sort I have copied his style.         --Dryden.
  
     3. Condition above the vulgar; rank. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
     4. A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be
        together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals. [Obs.]
        ``A sort of shepherds.'' --Spenser. ``A sort of steers.''
        --Spenser. ``A sort of doves.'' --Dryden. ``A sort of
        rogues.'' --Massinger.
  
              A boy, a child, and we a sort of us, Vowed against
              his voyage.                           --Chapman.
  
     5. A pair; a set; a suit. --Johnson.
  
     6. pl. (Print.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or
        quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
  
     Out of sorts (Print.), with some letters or sorts of type
        deficient or exhausted in the case or font; hence,
        colloquially, out of order; ill; vexed; disturbed.
  
     To run upon sorts (Print.), to use or require a greater
        number of some particular letters, figures, or marks than
        the regular proportion, as, for example, in making an
        index.
  
     Syn: Kind; species; rank; condition.
  
     Usage: Sort, Kind. Kind originally denoted things of the
            same family, or bound together by some natural
            affinity; and hence, a class. Sort signifies that
            which constitutes a particular lot of parcel, not
            implying necessarily the idea of affinity, but of mere
            assemblage. the two words are now used to a great
            extent interchangeably, though sort (perhaps from its
            original meaning of lot) sometimes carries with it a
            slight tone of disparagement or contempt, as when we
            say, that sort of people, that sort of language.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Sort \Sort\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sorted; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Sorting.]
     1. To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions,
        as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths
        according to their colors; to sort wool or thread
        according to its fineness.
  
              Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted
              and sorted from one another.          --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.
  
     2. To reduce to order from a confused state. --Hooker.
  
     3. To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
  
              Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients,
              compared and sorted with insects.     --Bacon.
  
              She sorts things present with things past. --Sir J.
                                                    Davies.
  
     4. To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
  
              That he may sort out a worthy spouse. --Chapman.
  
              I'll sort some other time to visit you. --Shak.
  
     5. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. [R.]
  
              I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Sort \Sort\, v. i.
     1. To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the
        same kind or species; to agree.
  
              Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the
              earth, and minerals with minerals.    --Woodward.
  
              The illiberality of parents towards children makes
              them base, and sort with any company. --Bacon.
  
     2. To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
  
              They are happy whose natures sort with their
              vocations.                            --Bacon.
  
              Things sort not to my will.           --herbert.
  
              I can not tell you precisely how they sorted. --Sir
                                                    W. Scott.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  sort
       n 1: a category of things distinguished by some common
            characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art";
            "what kinds of desserts are there?" [syn: kind, form,
             variety]
       2: an approximate definition or example; "she wore a sort of
          magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert
          thing"
       3: a person of a particular character or nature; "what sort of
          person is he?"; "he's a good sort"
       4: an operation that segregates items into groups according to
          a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery it
          the process of sorting" [syn: sorting]
       v 1: examine in order to test suitability; "screen these
            samples"; "screen the job applicants" [syn: screen, screen
            out, sieve]
       2: arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you
          classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
          [syn: classify, class, assort, sort out, separate]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  sort
     Δανικά n.
     μαύρο

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  sort
     Danish a.
     1 black (absorbing most light)
     2 under the table; done in secret so as to avoid taxation
     Danish adv.
     under the table; secretly, so as to avoid taxation
     Danish n.
     1 sort#English, kind
     2 quality
     3 brand
     4 (lb da botany) cultivar
     Estonian n.
     kind, (l en sort), brand
     Friulian a.
     deaf
     n.
     A general type.
     vb.
     1 (senseid en separate according to certain criteria) (lb en
  transitive) To separate items into different categories according to
  certain criterion that determine their sorts.
     2 (senseid en arrange into some '''sort''' of order)(lb en
  transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically,
  alphabetically or chronologically.
     3 (lb en transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to
  class.
     4 (lb en transitive obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
     5 (lb en transitive obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to
  cull.
     6 (lb en intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially
  with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
     7 (lb en intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to
  harmonize.
     8 (senseid en fix a problem) (lb en British colloquial transitive) To
  fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
     9 (lb en British colloquial transitive) To attack physically.
     10 (lb en transitive) To geld. <!--Chambers 1908-->
     Norwegian Bokmål a.
     1 black (lb nb colour)
     2 illegal; in avoidance of taxes
     Norwegian Bokmål alt.
     1 black (lb nb colour)
     2 illegal; in avoidance of taxes
     Norwegian Bokmål n.
     a (l en sort), kind or type
     Plautdietsch n.
     sort, kind, type, ilk, variety
     Romanian n.
     (l en sort), kind, variety

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  sort
     n.
     A general type.
     vb.
     1 (senseid en separate according to certain criteria) (lb en
  transitive) To separate items into different categories according to
  certain criterion that determine their sorts.
     2 (senseid en arrange into some '''sort''' of order)(lb en
  transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically,
  alphabetically or chronologically.
     3 (lb en transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to
  class.
     4 (lb en transitive obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
     5 (lb en transitive obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to
  cull.
     6 (lb en intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially
  with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
     7 (lb en intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to
  harmonize.
     8 (senseid en fix a problem) (lb en British colloquial transitive) To
  fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
     9 (lb en British colloquial transitive) To attack physically.
     10 (lb en transitive) To geld. <!--Chambers 1908-->

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  sort
     Danish a.
     1 black (absorbing most light)
     2 under the table; done in secret so as to avoid taxation
     Danish adv.
     under the table; secretly, so as to avoid taxation
     Danish n.
     1 sort#English, kind
     2 quality
     3 brand
     4 (lb da botany) cultivar
     Estonian n.
     kind, (l en sort), brand
     Hungarian n.
     shorts (gloss: pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go
  lower than the knees)
     Hungarian n.
     (inflection of hu sor  acc s)
     Norwegian Bokmål a.
     1 black (lb nb colour)
     2 illegal; in avoidance of taxes
     Norwegian Bokmål alt.
     1 black (lb nb colour)
     2 illegal; in avoidance of taxes
     Norwegian Bokmål n.
     a (l en sort), kind or type
     Polish n.
     (lb pl colloquial) (l en sort) (gl: type)
     Swedish n.
     c #English, kind

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  sort
     Danish a.
     1 black (absorbing most light)
     2 under the table; done in secret so as to avoid taxation
     Danish adv.
     under the table; secretly, so as to avoid taxation
     Danish n.
     1 sort#English, kind
     2 quality
     3 brand
     4 (lb da botany) cultivar
     Estonian n.
     kind, (l en sort), brand
     Hungarian n.
     shorts (gloss: pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go
  lower than the knees)
     Hungarian n.
     (inflection of hu sor  acc s)
     Norwegian Bokmål a.
     1 black (lb nb colour)
     2 illegal; in avoidance of taxes
     Norwegian Bokmål alt.
     1 black (lb nb colour)
     2 illegal; in avoidance of taxes
     Norwegian Bokmål n.
     a (l en sort), kind or type
     Polish n.
     (lb pl colloquial) (l en sort) (gl: type)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  sort
     Ranska n.
     kohtalo, osa; sattumus
     Ranska vb.
     (fr-v-taivm indpy3 s ort sortir)
     Ruotsi n.
     laji, laatu

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  sort
     Engelska n.
     1 #Svenska, slag
     2 (tagg data språk=en) sorteringsalgoritm
     Engelska vb.
     sortera
     Franska vb.
     (böjning fr verb sortir)

From Swedish Wiktionary: Swedish language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-sv-2023-07-27 ]


  sort
     n.
     1 typ, slag
     2 (tagg botanik jordbruk) framodlad variant av en art av en växt,
  kultivar

From Danish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.1 : [ freedict:dan-eng ]


  sort /sˈoɐ̯t/
  black

From English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-afr ]


  sort /sˈɔːt/
  soort

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Sort /sˈɔːt/
  النوع

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  sort //sɔɹt// //sɔːt// 
  1. подреждане, сортиране
  act of sorting
  2. вид, сорт, тип
  type

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  sort //sɔɹt// //sɔːt// 
  1. подреждам
  arrange in order
  2. разпределям, сортирам
  separate according to certain criteria