Thesaurus: sort

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1. n. Chance; lot; destiny.
2. n. A kind or class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/species">species; any class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/number">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.
3. n. Manner; form of being or acting.
4. n. Condition above the vulgar; rank.
5. n. A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
6. n. A pair; a set; a suit.
7. n. Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
8. v. t. 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.
9. v. t. To reduce to order from a confused state.
10. v. t. To class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/conjoin">conjoin; to put class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/together">together in distribution; to class.
11. v. t. To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
12. v. t. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
13. v. i. To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
14. v. i. To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.