A general type. / Manner; form of being or acting. / (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank. / (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.). / (dated) Group, company.

(transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.

divination, or the seeking of guidance, by chance selection of a passage in the Bible or another text regarded as authoritative.

simple past tense and past participle of sort

Put into some order by sorting. / (informal, usually with out) In good order, under control. / (Britain, slang) In possession of a sufficient supply, especially of narcotics.

(Britain slang) A general expression of approval or completion

Obsolete form of sort.

present participle of sort

(gerund) Ordering. / (gerund) Categorizing. / (gerund, UK) Mending.

(idiomatic, colloquial) Approximately; in a way; partially; not quite; somewhat.