Sort vs Match - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between sort and match

is that sort is kind, type, sort or sort can be fate, destiny, chance while match is match.

sort

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m) (= Dutch (m), German (m), Danish (m), Swedish (m)), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A general type.

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*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith

, volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.}}

Manner; form of being or acting.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:Which for my part I covet to perform, / In sort as through the world I did proclaim.

*(Richard Hooker) (1554-1600)

*:Flowers, in such sort worn, can neither be smelt nor seen well by those that wear them.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:I'll deceive you in another sort .

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:To Adam in what sort / Shall I appear?

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:I shall not be wholly without praise, if in some sort I have copied his style.

*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

(lb) Condition above the vulgar; rank.

:(Shakespeare)

(lb) Group, company.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:a sort of shepherds

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:a sort of doves

*(Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)

*:a sort of rogues

*(George Chapman) (1559-1634)

*:A boy, a child, and we a sort of us, / Vowed against his voyage.

(lb) A person.

An act of sorting.

(lb) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.

(lb) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.

(lb) Chance; lot; destiny.

*(William Shakespeare)

*:Let blockish Ajax draw / The sort to fight with Hector.

(lb) A pair; a set; a suit.

:(Johnson)

Quotations

* (English Citations of "sort")

Synonyms

* (type) genre, genus, kind, type, variety * (person) character, individual, person, type * (act of sorting) sort-out * (in computing) sort algorithm, sorting algorithm * (typography) glyph, type * See also

Derived terms

* all sorts * allsorts * in sort * out of sorts * sort of * sort out * sorta * bead sort * binary tree sort * blort sort * bogo-sort * bozo sort * bubble sort * bucket sort * cocktail sort * comb sort * counting sort * distribution sort * drunk man sort * gnome sort * heapsort * insertion sort * in-place sort * insertion sort * introsort * introspective sort * library sort * merge sort * mergesort * monkey sort * pigeonhole sort * quicksort * radix sort * selection sort * shell sort * smoothsort * stochastic sort * stupid sort * stooge sort * timsort

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Verb

(en verb)

(senseid)To separate according to certain criteria.

* Isaac Newton

Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another.

(senseid)To arrange into some order, especially numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.

(senseid)(British) To fix a problem, to handle a task; to sort out.

To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.

* Francis Bacon

Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects.

* Sir J. Davies

She sorts things present with things past.

To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.

* Woodward

Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals.

* Francis Bacon

The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company.

To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.

* Francis Bacon

They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations.

* Sir Walter Scott

I cannot tell ye precisely how they sorted .

(obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.

* Shakespeare

I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience.

(obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.

* Chapman

that he may sort out a worthy spouse

* Shakespeare

I'll sort some other time to visit you.

Usage notes

In British sense “to fix a problem”, often used in the form “I’ll get you sorted,” or “Now that’s sorted,” – in American usage (sort out) is used instead.

Synonyms

* (separate according to certain criteria) categorise/categorize, class, classify, group * (arrange into some sort of order) order, rank

Derived terms

* sorted * sorting * sort out

Statistics

Anagrams

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match

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) macche, from (etyl)

Noun

(es)

(sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.

My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.

Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.

* Drayton

many a warlike match

* Dryden

A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.

Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.

He knew he had met his match .

* Addison

Government makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.

A marriage.

A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.

* Clarendon

She was looked upon as the richest match of the West.

Suitability.

Equivalence; a state of correspondence. (rfex)

Equality of conditions in contest or competition.

* Shakespeare

It were no match , your nail against his horn.

A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.

The carpet and curtains are a match .

An agreement or compact.

* Shakespeare

Thy hand upon that match .

* Boyle

Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.

(metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.

Derived terms

* cage match * first class match * friendly match * grudge match * * love match * Man of the Match/man of the match * match fixing * match made in heaven * match made in hell * matchless * matchmaker * match play/matchplay * matchplayer * match point * match referee * * one-day match * overmatch * post-match * rubber match * shouting match * slanging match * steel cage match * Test match * tour match * whole shitting match * whole shooting match

Verb

(es)

(lb) To agree, to be equal, to correspond to.

*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.}}

(lb) To make a successful match or pairing.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= End of the peer show , passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}

(lb) To equal or exceed in achievement.

(lb) To unite in marriage, to mate.

*1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , :

*:Adam's sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

*:A senator of Rome survived, / Would not have matched his daughter with a king.

To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.

Derived terms

* match drill * matcher * matchup * matchy * * overmatch * unmatch

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Noun

(es)

Device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.

He struck a match and lit his cigarette.

Synonyms

* spunk

Derived terms

* fireplace match * matchbook, matchbox, matchlock * matchgirl * phosphorus match * quick match * safety match * slow match * strike-anywhere match * sulfur match * sulphur match