sorts

A general type.

Manner; form of being or acting.

Condition above the vulgar; rank.

A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).

Group, company.

A good-looking woman.

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.”

A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.

A type.

Chance; lot; destiny.

A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.

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.”

To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.

“Sort those bells into a row in ascending sequence of pitch.”

To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.

To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.

To choose from a number; to select; to cull.

To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.

To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.

To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).

To attack physically.

“If he comes nosing around here again I'll sort him!”