Usually means: Arrange items in specific order.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word sort:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sort: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sort: Merriam-Webster
  3. sort: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sort: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sort: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sort: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sort, sort: Wordnik
  8. sort: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sort: Wiktionary
  10. sort: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sort: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sort: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sort: Dictionary.com
  14. sort (n.), sort (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sort: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SORT (DOS command), SORT (disambiguation), SORT (journal), SORT, Sort (Unix), Sort (typesetting), Sort: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sort: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sort: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sort: Rhymezone
  20. sort, sort (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sort: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sort: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sort: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sort, the sort: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. sort: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. sort-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sort, the sort: Legal dictionary

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. sort: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. sort: Netlingo
  3. sort: CCI Computer
  4. sort: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  5. sort: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  6. Sort (computing), sort, the sort: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. sort, the sort: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SORT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. sort, the sort: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sort, sort: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sort, sort: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sort: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. sort: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A general type.
noun:  (archaic) Manner, way; form of being or acting.
noun:  (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
noun:  (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way.
noun:  (obsolete) Group, company.
noun:  (British, Australia, informal) A good-looking woman.
noun:  An act of sorting.
noun:  (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
noun:  (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
noun:  (mathematics) A type.
noun:  (obsolete) Fate, fortune, destiny.
noun:  (obsolete) Anything used to determine the answer to a question by chance; lot.
noun:  (obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes or a suit of clothes.
verb:  (transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
verb:  (transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
verb:  (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
verb:  (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
verb:  (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
verb:  (British, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
verb:  (British, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.
verb:  (transitive) To geld.

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