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Forms

1.A general type.
- 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.
2.A person evaluated in a certain way.(informal)
- One doesn't need to be Einstein to realize he is a bad sort / My wife always said as much.
- 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.
3.A good-looking woman.(informal)
4.An act of sorting.
- I had a sort of my cupboard.

1.To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
- Sort those bells into a row in ascending sequence of pitch.
2.To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
- Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insecta.
3.To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
4.To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
- Sort the letters in those bags into a separate pile for each language.
- 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.

Common· #837

From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (cognate 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”).