sort

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /sɔːt/    美 /soɹt/|/soːt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A general type.
    — I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
  2. Manner, way; form of being or acting. archaic
    — Soon as the term of those six years shall cease, Ye then shall hither back return again, The marriage to accomplish vow’d betwixt you twain. Which for my part, I covet to perform, In sort as through the world I did proclaim, That whoso kill’d that monster (most deform) And him in hardy battle overcame, Should have mine only daughter to his Dame […]
  3. Condition above the vulgar; rank. obsolete
    — “What think you, Captain Fluellen? is it fit this soldier keep his oath?” “He is a craven and a villain else, an’t please your majesty, in my conscience.” “It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort, quite from the answer of his degree.” “Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath.”
  4. A person evaluated in a certain way. informal
    — good sort, bad sort
  5. Group, company. obsolete
    — a sort of shepherds suing of the Chace
  6. A good-looking woman. Australia,UK,informal
  7. An act of sorting.
    — I had a sort of my cupboard.
  8. An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
    — Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort.
  9. A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
    — Green managed to recover a total of 151 sorts (the name for individual pieces of type) out of a possible 500,000.
  10. A type.
  11. Fate, fortune, destiny. obsolete
    — For he is groſſe and like the maſſie earth, That mooues not vpwards, nor by princely deeds Doth meane to ſoare aboue the highest ſort.
  12. Anything used to determine the answer to a question by chance; lot. obsolete
    — No, make a lottery; And, by device, let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector.
  13. A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes or a suit of clothes. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts. transitive
    — Sort the letters in those bags into a separate pile for each language.
  2. To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically. transitive
    — Sort those bells into a row in ascending sequence of pitch.
  3. To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. transitive
    — Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insecta.
  4. To conform; to adapt; to accommodate. obsolete,transitive
    — I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience.
  5. To choose from a number; to select; to cull. obsolete,transitive
    — To send his mother to her father's house, that he may sort her out a worthy spouse
  6. To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree. intransitive
    — The illiberality of Parents in allowance towards their children is an harmefull error: makes them base; acquaints them with shifts, makes them sort with meane companie; and makes them surfet more, when they come to plenty.
  7. To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize. intransitive
    — They are happie men, whose natures sort with their vocations, otherwise they may say Multum incola fuit anima mea; when they converse in those things they doe not affect.
  8. To fix (a problem) or handle (a task). UK,colloquial,transitive
    — ‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming [title]
  9. To attack physically. UK,colloquial,transitive
    — If he comes nosing around here again I'll sort him!
  10. To geld. transitive

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
character individual person type
衍生词
all sorts in sort out of sorts sorta sort of that's your sort copy sort cycle sort good sort mergesort middling sort missort picture sort sortal sort code topological sort alphasort archaeosortase besort cubesort immunosort pick-and-sort presort re-sort resort serosort Shellsort sortability sortable sortase sortation sorted sorting sortkey sort oneself out sort out sort the wheat from the chaff sort through sort-while-pick subsort Timsort unsort

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
From Middle English sorten, from Old French sortir (“to allot, sort”), from Latin sortīre (“draw lots, divide, choose”), from sors.
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