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How to pronounce sort in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms sorting
Type of operation


the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting.
Type Words
Synonyms assort, class, classify, separate, sort out
Type of categorise, categorize
Has types unitize, catalog, catalogue, count, dichotomise, dichotomize, grade, group, isolate, number, size, stamp, stereotype, unitise, pigeonhole, reclassify, refer
Derivation sorting, sorter
Type Words
Synonyms screen, screen out, sieve
Type of pick out, select, choose, take
Type Words
Synonyms form, kind, variety
Type of category
Has types art form, brand, color, colour, description, flavor, flavour, genre, genus, ilk, type, like, make, manner, model, the likes of, the like, style, antitype, species, stripe
Type Words
Type of similarity


she wore a sort of magenta dress.
she served a creamy sort of dessert thing.
Type Words
Type of soul, person, someone, somebody, mortal, individual


what sort of person is he?.
he's a good sort.

Examples of sort

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Fortunately for Bo, he has a state full of advisers to help him sort things out.
From the omaha.com
The vast studio in Chelsea marked a new sort of crossroads for fashion and film.
From the washingtontimes.com
It was the sort of day when fluttering fans-the kind you hold-filled the stands.
From the denverpost.com
So, does the social skills group have some sort of typical peers involved in it?
From the abcnews.go.com
I'm having about the same sort of experience I had when I first studied physics.
From the latimes.com
I don't know if that's typical of all nerds, but that's sort of how my brain is.
From the us.cnn.com
Chad Ochocinco could come off looking like some sort of modern-day Cesar Chavez.
From the heraldtribune.com
We have to sort of go back to the fundamentals of how we look at our businesses.
From the businessweek.com
There's sort of a misunderstanding by the public about what exactly is going on.
From the businessweek.com
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  • Kind: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?"
  • Screen: examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
  • Classify: arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
  • An approximate definition or example; "she wore a sort of magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert thing"
  • A person of a particular character or nature; "what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort"
  • An operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting"
  • The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions (SORT), better known as the Moscow Treaty "represents an important element of the new strategic relationship between the United States and Russia". ...
  • Sort is a function in C++ Standard Library that takes two random-access iterators, the start and the end, as arguments and performs a comparison sort on the range of elements between the two iterators, front-inclusive and end-exclusive. ...
  • In computer science and mathematics, a sorting algorithm is an algorithm that puts elements of a list in a certain order. The most-used orders are numerical order and lexicographical order. ...