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

(idiomatic) Resembling; similar to; in a way; partially or not entirely.

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

plural of sorting

(obsolete) In company (with). / (obsolete) In a way; to some extent. / (obsolete) In such a way (as).

Alternative spelling of sort of

(idiomatic) Irritable or somewhat unwell, with vague medical symptoms. / (printing, dated) With some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font.

(transitive) To clarify by reviewing mentally. / (transitive) To arrange. / (transitive) To fix, as a problem.

(advertising) A research tool used to assess the effectiveness of advertising by asking consumers to select the pictures that best describe a brand.

(advertising) An advertising research technique that assesses individual phrases and verbal ideas in a commercial by the audience's levels of attention or recall, relevance, and feelings.