sort

noun
sôrt

A general type.

Other meanings

An act of sorting.
“I had a sort of my cupboard.”
An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
“Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.”

Example sentences

“I'm still trying to sort my schedule out.”
Tatoeba · ddnktr · CC0
“I've got some sort of nasty bug.”
Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0
“People recover from all sorts of things.”
Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0

Word history

From Latin "sortem".

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “sort” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.