noun chance; lot; destiny.
2. sort ·noun a pair; a set; a suit.
3. sort ·noun manner; form of being or acting.
4. sort ·noun condition above the vulgar; rank.
5. sort ·vt to reduce to order from a confused state.
6. sort ·vt to choose from a number; to select; to cull.
7. sort ·noun letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
8. sort ·vt to conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
9. sort ·noun a chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
10. sort ·vt to conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
11. sort ·vi to join or associate with others, ·esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
12. sort ·vi to suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
13. sort ·vt to separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.
14. sort ·noun a kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.