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41sort — I. SORT. s. m. Hazard, rencontre fortuite d évenements bons ou mauvais. Heureux sort. malheureux sort. sort deplorable. le sort des armes. Il se prend aussi, pour La Destinée, dans le sens des Anciens: Et pour l enchaisnement & la suite des… …
42sort — [[t]sɔ͟ː(r)t[/t]] ♦ sorts, sorting, sorted 1) N COUNT: with supp, usu N of n If you talk about a particular sort of something, you are talking about a class of things that have particular features in common and that belong to a larger group of… …
43sort of — adverb to some (great or small) extent (Freq. 10) it was rather cold the party was rather nice the knife is rather dull I rather regret that I cannot attend He s rather good at playing the cello he is kind of shy …
44sort — sortable, adj. sortably, adv. sorter, n. /sawrt/, n. 1. a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort. 2.… …
45sort — as·sort; as·sort·a·tive; as·sort·ed; as·sort·er; as·sort·ment; con·sort·ism; re·sort·er; sort·able; sort·er; sort; we·sort; pre·sort; con·sort; mis·sort; re·sort; as·sort·ive; sort·ably; …
46sort*/*/*/ — [sɔːt] noun [C] I a group or type of people or things with the same qualities or features Syn: kind, type What sort are you looking for?[/ex] Is this a joke of some sort?[/ex] Mistakes of this sort happen every day.[/ex] He was asking us all… …
47sort of — kind of, sort of 1. These expressions mean much the same, and share the same grammatical problems. (The issues raised here seem to occur less often in practice with the third alternative, type of.) There is less of a problem when kind of is… …
48sort — /sɔt / (say sawt) noun 1. a particular kind, species, variety, class, group, or description, as distinguished by the character or nature: to discover a new sort of mineral. 2. character, quality, or nature. 3. a more or less adequate or… …
49sort — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, fate, lot, characteristic, from Latin sort , sors lot, share, category more at series Date: 14th century 1. a. a group set up on the basis of any characteristic in common ; class, kind b. one… …
50sort — 01. Let s [sort] your toys into two piles; those you want to keep, and those you want to get rid of. 02. As you fold up the clothes from the dryer, [sort] them into piles for each person. 03. Don t swear. I don t like that [sort] of language. 04 …
