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Words related to sort

Related / Similar Words: kind, form, variety, sorting, classify, class, assort, sort out, separate, screen, screen out, sieve

Definition:

an approximate definition or example; "she wore a sort of magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert thing";

a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?";

a person of a particular character or nature; "what sort of person is he?"; "he''s a good sort";

an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery it the process of sorting";

arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?";

examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants";

Hyponyms: description, type, antitype, art form, style, flavor, flavour, color, colour, species, genus, brand, make, genre, ilk, manner, model, stripe, the like, the likes of, unitize, unitise, catalogue, catalog, isolate, refer, reclassify, size, dichotomize, dichotomise, pigeonhole, stereotype, stamp, group, grade, count, number

Entailments: compare

Derivational Morphology: classify, class, assort, sort out, separate, screen, screen out, sieve, categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation, assortment, kind, form, variety, sorting, sorter, category, family, division, social class, socio-economic class, classifier, screening, screener

Language Translations:
Afrikaans: soort and sorteer and sortering		Albanian: soj
Dutch: rangschikken and soort and sorteren		Finnish: järjestää and lajitella and lajittelu and tyyppi
French: triage and trier and type		German: Art and sortieren and trennen
Hebrew: סוג and סידור		Hungarian: fajta and válogat
Italian: classificare and mettere in ordine and specie		Japanese: 類い and 並べ替え
Portuguese: classificar and ordenar		Romanian: fel
Russian: сортировать and сортировка and тип		Swedish: ordna and sort and sortera and sortering
Tagalog: uri		Telugu: అమరిక and పేర్చు and రకము
Turkish: cins

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