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A general type.
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, title= 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.
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*: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.
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(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.
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An act of sorting.
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(lb) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
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(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.
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(senseid)To separate according to certain criteria.
* Isaac Newton
(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
* Sir J. Davies
To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
* Woodward
* Francis Bacon
To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
* Francis Bacon
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
* Chapman
* Shakespeare
A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing.
A person, usually an attractive female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given away as prizes on a TV game show.
A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
A simplified representation used to explain the workings of a real world system or event.
A style, type, or design.
The structural design of a complex system.
A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
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, title= (logic) An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
(logic) An interpretation which makes a certain sentence true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that sentence.
A particular style, design, or make of a particular product.
(manufacturing) An identifier of a product given by its manufacturer (also called model number).
Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
* Shakespeare
Worthy of being a model; exemplary.
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* 1932 , Nora Fugger, James Austin Galaston (translator), The Glory of the Habsburgs: the Memoirs of Princess Fugger , page 35:
* 1934 , Charles Ryle Fay, Imperial economy and its place in the formation of economic doctrine, 1600-1932 , page 143:
* 1956 , Stephen Rynne, All Ireland , page 54:
* 1968 , American County Government , volume 33, page 19:
* 1999 , Michael D. Williams, Acquisition for the 21st century: the F-22 Development Program , page 113:
* 2002 , Uma Anand Segal, A framework for immigration: Asians in the United States , page 308:
* 2010 , Eleanor Coppola, Notes on a Life , page 140:
To display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model.
To use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model.
To make a miniature model of.
To create from a substance such as clay.
To make a or models.
To be a model of any kind.
Sort is a related term of model.
As nouns the difference between sort and model
is that sort is kind, type, sort or sort can be fate, destiny, chance while model is template.sort
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m) (= Dutch (m), German (m), Danish (m), Swedish (m)), from (etyl) .Noun
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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.
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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 alsoDerived 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 * timsortEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Rays which differ in refrangibility may be parted and sorted from one another.
- Shellfish have been, by some of the ancients, compared and sorted with insects.
- She sorts things present with things past.
- Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals.
- The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company.
- They are happy whose natures sort with their vocations.
- I cannot tell ye precisely how they sorted .
- I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience.
- that he may sort out a worthy spouse
- 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, rankDerived terms
* sorted * sorting * sort outStatistics
*Anagrams
* ----model
English
(wikipedia model)Alternative forms
* modellNoun
(en noun)- I had my father's signet in my purse, / Which was the model of that Danish seal.
- You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished.
- He was a model of eloquence and virtue.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
- Thou seest thy wretched brother die, / Who was the model of thy father's life.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* abstract model * animal model * arbitrage pricing model * business model * causal model * commercial model * computer model * conceptual model * data model * database model * Document Object Model * economy model * enterprise architecture model * entity-relationship model * fashion model * fetish model * fitness model * glamour model * information model * late model * mark to model * mathematical model * mental model * model aircraft * model checking * model organism * model solution * model theory * modelizer * modelly * multimodel * off-model * plamodel * production model * relational model * role model * runway model * scale model * scientific model * spokesmodel * supermodel * waterfall model * water-line model * view modelAdjective
(-)- At our approach the animals made so much noise that the owners of the hut peered round the door to see what was the matter; outwardly rather less model than the farm, there appeared two ancient Basques, emblematically black-bereted, gnarled [...]
- [...] from the land of your origin, because you demand the claims of those who believe it more model than yours, [...]
- Methods of game-preservation in their extensive and well-stocked hunting-grounds were as model as the huntsmanlike management of the hunts.
- [...] and we press with special severity on one small country whose agriculture is as model as is her way of rural life.
- True, it is an untidy county; the farmhouses are much more model' than the farms (when we reach Antrim we shall find that the farms are more ' model than the farmhouses).
- But not all the exchanges were as model as the sergeant. Some of the exchangees showed a rigidity and reluctance to adapt.
- It is as model as you can get.
- While Asians have been perceived as the model minority, it is increasingly clear that some Asian groups are more model than are others, and even within these model groups, a division exists [...]
- All were neat and well kept which added to the sense that they were more model than real.
Synonyms
* (worthy of being a model) idealVerb
- She modelled the shoes for her friends to see.
- They modelled the data with a computer to analyze the experiment’s results.
- He takes great pride in his skill at modeling airplanes.
- The sculptor modelled the clay into the form of a dolphin.
- The actress used to model before being discovered by Hollywood.