Sort vs Put - What's the difference?
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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.
:(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.
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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.
:(Johnson)
(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
To place something somewhere.
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, chapter=20 To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.
(finance) To exercise a put option.
To express something in a certain manner.
* Hare
(athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport.
To steer; to direct one's course; to go.
* (John Dryden)
To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
To attach or attribute; to assign.
(obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
* Wyclif Bible, John xv. 13
To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.
* Berkeley
* Milton
(obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.
* Jonathan Swift
* Sir Walter Scott
* Milton
(mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.
(business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.
(finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.
* Johnson's Cyc.
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.
* L'Estrange
An old card game.
(obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person.
* Bramston
* F. Harrison
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 244:
As a noun sort
is kind, type, sort or sort can be fate, destiny, chance.As an acronym put is
(software|testing).As an initialism put is
(electronics).sort
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m) (= Dutch (m), German (m), Danish (m), Swedish (m)), from (etyl) .Noun
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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.
citation, passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring.
Sam Leith
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.}}
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
* ----put
English
(wikipedia put)Etymology 1
From (etyl) putten, puten, poten, from (etyl) .Verb
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- All this is ingeniously and ably put .
- His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.
- to put a wrong construction on an act or expression
- No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.
- to put''' a question; to '''put a case
- Put' the perception and you ' put the mind.
- These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.
- These wretches put us upon all mischief.
- Put me not to use the carnal weapon in my own defence.
- Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.
- (Raymond)
Derived terms
* put about * put across * put aside * put away * put back * put by * put down * put end * put forth * put forward * put in * put in place * put in practice * put into * put off * put on * put on airs * put on a pedestal * put one over * put one's cards on the table * put one's house in order * put one's money where one's mouth is * put one's name in the hat * put out * put out feelers * put over * put paid to * put someone in mind of * put through * put to * put together * put to rest * put two and two together * put under * put up * put up with * put upon * put with * put wise * put words in someone's mouth * putable * puttable * input * outputSee also
puttenNoun
(en noun)- He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.
- A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.
- the put of a ball
- The stag's was a forc'd put , and a chance rather than a choice.
- (Young)
See also
* (Stock option) * call * optionEtymology 2
Origin unknown. Perhaps related to (etyl) pwt.Noun
(en noun)- Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign.
- What droll puts the citizens seem in it all.
- The old put wanted to make a parson of me, but d—n me, thinks I to myself, I'll nick you there, old cull; the devil a smack of your nonsense shall you ever get into me.