Sort

Definition: Sort

Sort

Noun

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

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

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

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

Verb

1. Examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants".

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sort" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Computing

Math

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SORT

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Synonyms: Sort

Arrangement

Verb: reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally. arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order; set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of, assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion.

Class

Kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset; assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin.

Conformity

Phrase: cela va sans dire; ex pede Herculem; noscitur a sociis; ne e quovis ligno Mercurius fiat; "they are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations". "The nail that sticks up will get hammered down"; "Stick your neck out and it may get cut off."

Continuity

Arrange in a series, collate; Noun: string together, file, thread, graduate, organize, sort, tabulate.

Degree

Noun: degree, grade, extent, measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch; reach, amplitude, range, scope, caliber; gradation, shade; tenor, compass; sphere, station, rank, standing; rate, way, sort.

List

Verb: list, itemize; sort, collate; enumerate, tabulate, catalog, tally.

Negation

Adverb: no, nay, not, nowise; not a bit, not a whit, not a jot; not at all, nohow, not in the least, not so; negative, negatory; no way; no such thing; nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort; quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it; tant s'en faut; on no account, in no respect; by no, by no manner of means; negatively.

Nobility

Gentry, gentlefolk; squirarchy, better sort magnates, primates, optimates; pantisocracy.

Qualification

Approximately in a limited degree (smallness); somewhat, sort of, something like that, to a certain extent, to a degree, in a sense, so to speak.

Similarity

Approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in the ballpark, such like; a show of; mock, pseudo, simulating, representing.

Sociality

Verb: be sociable; Adjective: know; be acquainted; Adjective: associate with, sort with, keep company with, walk hand in hand with; eat off the same trencher, club together, consort, bear one company, join; make acquaintance with; (friendship); make advances, fraternize, embrace.

Crosswords: Sort

Catalan (kind, sort), Danish (black), French (destiny, fate, fortune, kind, lot, luck, portion, sort), Hungarian (shorts), Irish (sort, kind), Romanian (brand, sort, species), Swedish (assortment, description, dye, fashion, grade, kidney, kind, manner, order, run, sort, strain, stripe, type, variety).

A new man, sort of speak- like you. Apparently free (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Well you have to admit, we've sort of made an (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

He was doing some sort of wizard magic on me. (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin)

I mean, you know it's real, but it's like looking through the lens gives you some sort of protection from what's on the other side (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez)

I'm not the sort of woman men marry (Rebecca; writing credit: Daphne Du Maurier; Philip MacDonald)

Just because my composure sort of slips ("Chances Are"; performing artist: Johnny Mathis)

Is she the sort (Jealousy; performing artist: Natalie Merchant)

So come over tonight let's sort this out. (Baby Come Over; performing artist: Samantha Mumba)

He sort of smiled and kissed me goodbye ("Leader of the Pack"; performing artist: The Shangri-Las)

My goal in life is to be the sort of person my dog thinks I am. (references; author: unknown)

L' Ironie du sort (1974)

Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of (1964)

La Chatte sort ses griffes (1960)

Englen i sort (1957)

Improvisationer i sort og hvidt (1952)

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Books

• A Rough Sort of Beauty: Reflections on the Natural Heritage of Arkansas (reference)

• A Sort of Homecoming: A Novel (reference)

• Another Sort of Learning (reference)

• Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner: A Sort of Love Story (reference)

• C Trick: Sort of a Memoir (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Log Sales Sort Report (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• A Strange Sort of Prayer (reference)

• Sort It Out (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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A wind swept- sea swept sort of place. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Sort of like a rodeo - sort of like Pamplona Bull riding and bull dodging all in one sport. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Water is pumped onto the screen to sort sand and silt from the gravel. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Americorp volunteers manually sort sand and gravel using shovels. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Helping sort the catch prior to study by scientists. Operations on the NOAA Ship OREGON II. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Mr Willie Little, and Mr. Jimmie Clark sort okra early in the morning for the Beat 4 Coop of which trhey are members. Credit: USDA.

At Florida A&M University, landscape design and management student Johnnene Addison helps sort aquatic insects to be used in biological monitoring of water quality. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

Voyez mon filtre...j'y mets de l'eau toute noire et elle en sort toute blanche. / Cham [i.e. Amédée Noé]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

You are not alone. : Helping sort out life's problems is our job. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Chief, what sort of a menu for their majesties?. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Their parents have a sort of rule and jurisdiction over them, when they come into the world, and for some time after; but it is but a temporary one. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Under that peculiar sort of dry, blunt manner, I know you have the warmest heart

I interposed, feeling that Bruno was, in a sort of way, in my care

She wondered what sort of herbs they were, which the old man was so sedulous to gather

Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of ditch, which could not possibly have been suspected by a distant observer

But there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know

Sort of wild

To remedy which there was a sort of people bred up among us, in the profession or pretense of curing the sick

The meaner sort are covered with mats which they make of a kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former

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Health

Some sort of agents will be needed. (references)

From there, you can choose to sort results by publication date, author, or relevance. (references)

A tendency to compulsively clean and groom and repetitively sort and disassemble objects, such as cars and other mechanical devices. (references)

Business

Its goal is to outline what sort of defense Norway can have for a certain sum of money. (references)

IOTA will take the waste from the existing trash collectors, sort it manually, then run it through 70 metric ton hydraulic presses. (references)

However, due to pressures from insurance companies and regulatory agencies, practically all banks in the country are implementing CCTV coverage together with some sort of digital or time-lapse recording system. (references)

Children

Chile

During the same period, those having suffered some sort of serious physical violence from their parents had fallen from 34 percent to 25 percent. (references)

Dominican Republic

The Department of Family and Children estimates that 50 percent of the children in the country are victims of some sort of abuse, although few such cases reach the courts. (references)

Chile

A survey of 8th grade students by UNICEF comparing the incidence of mistreatment in the years 1994 and 2000 showed that in 1994, 63 percent of children had been subject to some sort of physical violence compared to 54 percent at the end of the period. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bulgaria

Previously, one-third of journalists surveyed claimed that they had received outside pressure of some sort, either from government officials or business interests, in response to material they had written or broadcast. (references)

Economic History

Guatemala

However, most retailers provide some sort of guarantee that covers problems that occur under normal conditions of use. (references)

Guatemala

Direct sales to Government agencies and state-owned firms, except in a few cases, are not possible unless the foreign firm has some sort of local representative authorized to act on its behalf. (references)

Human Rights

Uzbekistan

Zakhir, who is a Radio Liberty reporter and a member of both the Birlik opposition party and the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan (HRSU), reported that this sort of interference is common. (references)

Minorities

Sri Lanka

Catholic clergy, for example, have reported non-violent incidents of this sort in the south during the year. (references)

Political Economy

HONG KONG

There are no foreign exchange controls of any sort. (references)

Trade

Egypt

On October 25, 1998, Decree No. 553 of 1998 was issued, addressing the conditions under which imported goods may be stored outside of Customs Zones (the first point of entry of goods into a customs territory and a sort of "holding area" pending determination of origin of the goods and their classification, assessment, and liquidation of applicable duties). (references)

Chile

In general, standards are not mandatory, but companies can voluntarily comply with them, especially in industries where such compliance constitutes a sort of "seal of approval." However, certain imported products, such as those pertaining to industrial safety, building and construction materials, and the gas and electricity industries, must comply with specific resolutions applying to the supervising entity. (references)

Travel

Russia

On inter-city overnight trains, secure the door to your compartment with some sort of jamming device (many people simply use a wire coat hanger). (references)

Worker Rights

Nauru

Most families live in simple but adequate housing, and almost every family owns some sort of motor vehicle. (references)

Ghana

Much of the recruitment of children is done with the consent of the parents, who sometimes are given an advance payment or promised regular stipends from the recruiter and are told the children will receive food, shelter, and often some sort of training or education. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Some sort of evil

Expressions using "sort": a sort of ♦ after a sort ♦ ascending alphabetic sort ♦ ascending alphabetical sort ♦ block sort ♦ bubble sort ♦ chronological sort ♦ cocktail shaker sort ♦ descending alphabetic sort ♦ descending alphabetical sort ♦ external sort ♦ good sort ♦ hand sort ♦ he is a good sort ♦ he's a good sort ♦ in a sort ♦ insertion sort ♦ it's a sort of awkward ♦ of a sort ♦ out of sort ♦ pixel sort ♦ quick sort ♦ rudimentary sort of building ♦ selection sort ♦ shaker sort ♦ simple sort ♦ something of the sort ♦ sort code ♦ sort into classes ♦ sort itself out ♦ sort manually/to ♦ sort of ♦ sort of wood ♦ sort on date values ♦ sort on dates ♦ sort oneself out ♦ sort out ♦ sort out smth. for smb. ♦ sort program ♦ sort smb. out ♦ sort through ♦ sort together ♦ special sort ♦ that sort ♦ to sort ♦ tournament sort ♦ what sort of. Additional references.

Beginning with "sort": sort-of, sort-of-a, sort-ofs, sort-of-wealth-tax, sort-out, sort-to.

Ending with "sort": all-sort, bogo-sort, primary-sort, Q-Sort, re-sort, root-sort, stupid-sort, wine-sort, worm-sort.

Containing "sort": amateur-pickpocket-sort-of-manner, look-here-this-sort-of-thing-won't-do-at-all-you-know.

Afrikaans

soort (kind). (various references)

Albanian

lloj (assortment, brand, brood, cast, class, description, form, genre, kidney, kind, nature, persuasion, race, rate, shape, species, stamp, stock, style, type, variety). (various references)

Arabic 

صنف (compose, kind, specimen, to categorize), ‏فرز (division, isolate, isolation, separation, sorting), ‏هذا النوع, ‏نوع (brood, change, class, description, form, gender, genus, grain, kidney, kind, manner, order, quality, ripeness, run, sex, species, stripe, style, type, variegate, variety, vary), ‏نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, codify, collocate, compose, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulate, regulation, right, seed, settle, shape, shuffle, spruce up, stage, streamline, systematize, verse), ‏عاشر (associate, hobnob, steady, tenth), ‏طريقة (art, attitude, channel, fashion, game, method, mode, procedure, process, style, styling, system, tactic, wise), ‏ضرب (batter, battery, beat, beat off, belabour, biff, buffet, chastise, connect, curry, description, drub, drubbing, fib, flap, flapping, form, galvanize, genre, go getter, grain, hit, hitting, impact, jabbing, kidney, kind, lace, lace into smb., lam, larrup, let out, lock out, manner, multiplication, multiply, order, overtake, paddle, paste, pasting, patter, poke, pommel, pound, pummel, slash, slosh, sock, stamp, strike, stripe, tan, tanning, thrash, thrashing, thresh, variety, wallop, whip), ‏صنف (article, assort, brand, categorize, category, class, classification, classify, compile, designate, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, kind, label, pigeonhole, place, rank, rate, species, stow, systematize, table, tabulate, type), ‏جنس (brood, genus, nationalize, sex, sexiness), ‏أسلوب (archaism, character, diction, flair, genre, language, manner, method, mode, pattern, phraseology, regimen, strain, style, stylization, technique, tone), ‏رتب (arrange, clean, collocate, construct, corral, dispose, do, form, hierarchy, lash up, line, marshal, ordain, order, pack, pigeonhole, plume, put in order, put things straight, range, rate, set, shape, spruce up, stow, straighten, tidy, trim), ‏شكل (accentuate, boil, cast, categorize, comprise, constitute, dot, fashion, form, formalize, format, frame, guise, likeness, make, modality, mode, model, mold, mould, punctuate, put together, semblance, shape, style, trace, vocalize, way), ‏شخص (baby, bloke, body, boy, cuss, customer, diagnose, effigy, embody, guy, individual, joker, man, person, personate, scout, specimen, spirit, stick), ‏باب (affair, chapter, door, entry, field, gate, hatch, issue, kind, matter, port, rubric, section, source, subject). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сортирам (assort, class, grade, jig, range, screen, separate, size), сорт (breed, class, degree, description, genus, grade, kind, nature, order, persuasion, rate, species, strain, style, tap, variety), род (breed, clan, family, gender, genus, house, kin, kind, kindred, line, manner, name, order, origin, parentage, race, rod, species, stamp, stock, strain, tribe), разпределям (admeasure, allocate, allot, apportion, assort, deal out, dispense, distribute, give out, map out, measure, parcel out, part, plot, serve out, share out, slice), категория (bracket, breed, category, class, division, grade, league, notion, pigeonhole, rank, rate, rating, stripe, value), вид (air, appearance, aspect, blush, breed, cast, clan, class, complexion, demeanor, demeanour, description, form, genre, genus, grade, guise, kidney, kind, likeness, look, manner, mien, mode, nature, order, persuasion, presence, race, shape, show, similitude, species, strain, stripe, style, taxon, type, variety, view), отивам (adjourn, betake, go, proceed, render, repair, resort, suit), отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, evolve, excrete, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), общувам (associate, assort, consort, converse, fraternize, intercommunicate, intermingle, know, mate, mingle, mix, mix up, socialize), начин (expedient, fashion, how, instrumentality, manner, means, method, mode, modus, resource, scheme, style, way, wise), намирам решение (solve), маниер (demeanor, demeanour, fashion, manner, mode, style, touch, turn, way), подхождам (agree, approach, assort, become, befit, beseem, conform, do, fit, match, sit). (various references)

Catalan

sort (kind). (various references)

Chinese 

般 (class, kind, manner, way), 種類 (class, kind, species), 排序 (sorted, sorting). (various references)

Czech

stav (condition, estate, fettle, frame of mind, order, posture, profession, quality, state, trim), sorta (kind, type), znaèka (brand, earmark, make, Mark, sign, symbol), uspořádat (arrange, dispose, dress, make up, order, organize, put in order, regularize, regulate, re-sort, settle), typ (case, make, representative, specimen, type), roztřídit (assort, rank, re-sort, sort through, Spall, staple), klasifikovat (classify, grade, Mark), hodnost (degree, dignity, estate, grade, position, rank, standing, title). (various references)

Danish

art (kind). (various references)

Dutch

soort (kind, species), slag (accomplishment, action, agony, battle, blow, expertness, fight, grasp, kind, knock, movement, scuffle, skilfulness, skill, skillfulness, snare, struggle, trap, turn), aard (character, kind, nature, personality, temporary). (various references)

Esperanto

speco (kind). (various references)

Faeroese

slag (blow, breed, kind, race, type). (various references)

Farsi 

پیوستن (Adhere, Adjoin, Affiliate, Affix, Ally, Annex, Associate, Attach, Cement, Cleave, Cling, Connect, Couple, Join, Meet, Weld), نوع (Brand, Breed, Class, Gender, Genus, Ilk, Issue, Kidney, Kind, Manner, Nature, Navigate, Order, Persuasion, Quality, Species, Speckle, Stamp, Suit, Type, Variety), قسم (Gender, Genus, Kind, Manner, Persuasion, Species, Speckle, Type), گونه (Breed, Cheek, Ilk, Jowl, Kind, Nature, Navigate, Species, Type), سواکردن (Detach, Disassemble, Isolate, Separate, Unlink), طور, طبقه (Bed, Caste, Category, Class, Estate, Genus, Grain, Ilk, Order, Race, Stage, Story, Stratum), جورکردن (Accord, Adapt, Assort, Concert, Consort, Lot, Suit), جوردرامدن (Jump), جور (Brand, Class, Compatible, Genus, Ilk, Kind, Oppression), رقم (Brand, Character, Digit, Figure, Item, Number, Symbol, Type), دمسازشدن (Concur), دسته دسته کردن (Group, Regiment). (various references)

Finnish

laji (brand, event, kind, make, species, sport). (various references)

French

tri (sorting, sorting out), sorte, genre, espèce. (various references)

Frisian

hoe'n (what a, what kind of, what sort of). (various references)

German

Sortieren (assort, classify, grade, sort out, to assort, to sort), Art (behavior, behaviour, breed, category, description, fashion, fits, form, grade, ilk, kind, manner, mode, nature, niceness, order, property, quality, species, strain, style, type, variety, way), Sortierung (sorting), Sorte (brand, breed, description, grade, ilk, kind, species, strain, type, variety), Gattung (breed, genre, genus, kind, species, tribe, type). (various references)

Greek 

ξεδιαλέγω (choose, pick over), χαρακτήρας πι (peculiar, pi character, pi font, special sort), χαρακτήρας τύπου πι (peculiar, pi character, pi font, special sort), είδοσ (article, brand, character, commodity, genre, item, kind, line, species, specimen, variety, ware), είδος (genre, kind, species, strain, type), τύπος (fellow, formula, guy, version), τακτοποιώ (arrange, clear up, deal with, rearrange, regularize, reset, sort out, tidy, trim), ταξινόμηση (assortment, classification, rating), ταξινομώ (assort, categorize, class, classify, put in order, tabulate), διαλέγω (choose, elect, garble, go for, pick, pick out, select, single somebody out). (various references)

Hawaiian

lloj (kind). (various references)

Hebrew 

מין (class, genus, kind, sex, type), למין (assort, catalogue, classify), לסיג (classify, restrict), לסוג (assort, catalogue, categorize, class, classify, grade, group, label, type), סוג (brand, category, class, denomination, fenced, genus, kind, quality, species, strain, turning aside, type). (various references)

Hungarian

rendez (arrange, fix up, order, organize, regularize, to acquit, to adjust, to calendar, to compose, to get up, to make up, to marshal, to order, to range, to regularize), mód (device, fashion, imperative, in the extreme, manner, method, methods, mode, modi, modus, pattern, style, way), kiválogat (assort, chose, chosen, garble, to assort, to choose, to garble, to grade, to sort out, to weed out), fajta (brand, breed, description, ilk, kind, kind of, -natured, persuasion, race, shape, species, stock, style, tribe, variety), faj (blood, genera, genus, kind, persuasion, race, species, tribe), féle (description, shape). (various references)

Indonesian

memilah, macam. (various references)

Irish

saghas (kind, kind; size), sórt, tsórt. (various references)

Italian

specie (kind, manner, species, type, variety), genere (article, cast, class, description, family, famine, gender, genre, genus, goods, ilk, kind, product, species, stem, type), sorta (description, grade, kind, manner, nature, species, type), razza (breed, ilk, kind, race, Ray, skate, stock, strain), ordinamento (arrangement, order, ordinance, regulation, regulations, rules, sorting), assortire (assort, match). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

陽 (appearance, in order to, kind, like, manner, so as to, so that, such as, sun, sunlight, way, yang), 類 (a kind, chin, class, family, genus, kind), 様 (appearance, in order to, kind, like, manner, Mr or Mrs, so as to, so that, such as, way, yang), ソーダ石灰 (saute, Seoul, soap, soarer, social worker, society, socket, socks, Socrates, soda lime, solar, solar system, sonata, sortie, sorting, soul, sword, Turkish baths associated with prostitution). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ソート , るい (base, class, evil influence, family, genus, implication, involvement, kind, thin, trouble, weak), よう (appearance, business, calamity, early death, employ, hire, in order to, kind, like, manner, so as to, so that, such as, task, to become intoxicated, to get drunk, use, way, yang). (various references)

Korean 

종류 (Categories, Category, Class, Classes). (various references)

Malay

macam (kind), jenis (kind). (various references)

Manx

sorchal (class, classify), sorchaghey (assort; sorting, sort out), sorch (classification, kind, species, type, variety). (various references)

Papiamen

sorto (kind). (various references)

Pig Latin

ortsay.(various references)

Polish

jaki (what a, what kind of, what sort of). (various references)

Portuguese

espécie (breed, description, feather, genus, kind, manner, race, specie, species, stripe). (various references)

Romanian

fel (character, class, course, custom, description, feather, kidney, kind, manner, mode, nature, order, race, species, stem, style, tap, tradition, tribe, way). (various references)

Russian 

сортировать сортировка;тип, сортировать (assort, collate, grade, select, separate, sorted), сорт (grade, kind, make, manner, persuasion, quality, race, strain, style, tap, variety), способ (how, in the manner, manner, means, medium, method, mode, modi, modus, process, technique, way), качество (capacity, character, degree, grade, kind, qty, quality), вид (air, appearance, aspect, complexion, description, figuration, form, genue, genus, guise, hang, kind, look, look out, make, mien, mode, outlook, prospect, shape, show, sight, species, spp., variety, view, visage, vision, vista). (various references)

Scottish

seòrsa (a sort, genus, kind, species, type). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stalež (class, ordinance), sortirati (assort, separate), sorta (brand, type), vrsta (brand, category, class, gamboge, genus, kind, labrador tea, manner, quality, rank, run, species, stripe, type), odvojiti (break off, detach, disconnect, divide, ease off, mark out, segregate, separate, set off, sever, spare, uncouple). (various references)

Spanish

suerte (chance, destination, destiny, die, factories, fatalism, fate, fortune, happiness, kind, luck, luckiness, piece of luck, try), ordenar (accommodate, adjure, arrange, assort, classify, command, confer, demand, enjoin, fill an order, line up, make, map out, Marshal, ordain, order, put in order, rank, set in order, set out, table, tell off, tidy out, tidy up, will), ordenación (ordination, sorting), especie (description, idea, kidney, kind, matter, notion, remark, species), clasificación (assortment, classification, filing, label, order, ordering, rating, separation, sorting, table), clase (breeding, class, denomination, description, form, grade, kind, lecture, lesson, manner, nature, order, period, quality, school, schoolroom, set, tone). (various references)

Swahili

gani (what a, what kind, what kind of, what sort of). (various references)

Swedish

sort (assortment, description, dye, fashion, grade, kidney, kind, manner, order, run, strain, stripe, type, variety), sortera (assort, grade, graduate), ordna (adjust, arrange, arrange for, array, assort, compose, dispose, do, dress, lay on, put in order, rank, regulate, see, settle). (various references)

Tagalog

uri (kind, property, quality), urì (kind, property, quality). (various references)

Thai

ชนิด (kind), การแบ่งชนิด, จัดเข้าประเภท. (various references)

Turkish

sınıflandırmak (assort, categorize, class, classify, divide, grade, graduate, group, label, label as, rate, sort out, subsume), sınıf (branch, category, circle, class, classroom, denomination, estate, form, genus, grade, order, race, rank, rate, schoolroom, sphere, States), tip (bakhshish, baksheesh, bugger, cast, codger, cuss, customer, cut, guy, ilk, job, Johnny, norm, number, perk, perquisite, person, pourboire, specimen, style, tip, type, vintage), tasnif etmek (classify, sort out), tür (breed, class, genre, genus, ilk, kind, persuasion, race, sort of, species, strain, stripe, type, variety), punto, kalite (chop, class, grade, quality, standard, water), harf takımı, halletmek (adjust, arrange, clear up, compound, dispatch, dispose of, dissolve, figure out, get things done, hurdle, lay on, lick, manage, overcome, polish off, resolve, solve, sort out, Square, surmount, unriddle, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unzip, work out), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow), ayıklamak (clean out, comb out, grub up, pick, pick over, pluck, select, sort out, weed out, weed up, winnow), çeşit (assortment, cast, class, denomination, description, genre, ilk, item, kind, range, sample, species, stripe, style, variety), çözümlemek (analyse, analyze, clear up, construe, resolve, solve, sort out). (various references)

Turkmen 

sortlamak. (various references)

Ukrainian

сортувати (assort, class, grade, pick), сорт (breed, chop, class, gender, genus, kind, nature, order, quality, tap), спосіб (fashion, manner, means, medium, method, mood, remedy, way), тримати в порядку, класифікувати (assort, categorize, class, classify, distribute, group, pigeonhole, rank, relegate), вид (aspect, complexion, description, genus, kind, outlook, perspective, prospect, sight, species, view). (various references)

Vietnamese