Sort vs Rate - What's the difference?

Sort is a related term of rate.

As nouns the difference between sort and rate

is that sort is kind, type, sort or sort can be fate, destiny, chance while rate is rot (process of something decaying or rotting ).

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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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.

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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

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rate

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from . (wikipedia rate)

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) The estimated worth of something; value.

* 1599 , William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet , V.3:

There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.

The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.

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Speed.

* Clarendon

Many of the horse could not march at that rate , nor come up soon enough.

The relative speed of change or progress.

The price of (an individual) thing; cost.

A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.

A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.

Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.

(nautical) A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.

(obsolete) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance; ration.

* Spenser

The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found.

(obsolete) Order; arrangement.

* Spenser

Thus sat they all around in seemly rate .

(obsolete) Ratification; approval.

(Chapman)

(horology) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.

daily rate'''; hourly '''rate ; etc.

Derived terms

* at any rate * exchange rate * flat rate * interest rate * mortality rate * failure rate * rate limiting

Verb

(rat)

To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.

She is rated fourth in the country.

To evaluate or estimate the value of.

They rate his talents highly.

* South

To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible.

To consider or regard.

He rated this book brilliant.

To deserve; to be worth.

The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.

* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 101:

Only two assistant district attorneys rate corner offices, and Mandelbaum wasn't one of them.

To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.

The transformer is rated at 10 watts.

(transitive, chiefly, British) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.

(informal) To like; to think highly of.

The customers don't rate the new burgers.

To have position (in a certain class).

She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.

He rates as the best cyclist in the country.

To have value or standing.

This last performance of hers didn't rate very high with the judges.

To ratify.

* Chapman

to rate the truce

To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.

Synonyms

* (have position in a certain class) rank

Derived terms

* rating

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Verb

(rat)

To berate, scold.

* Shakespeare

Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!

* Barrow

Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it.

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John IX:

Then rated they hym, and sayde: Thou arte hys disciple.

* , I.56:

Andronicus'' the Emperour, finding by chance in his pallace certaine principall men very earnestly disputing against ''Lapodius about one of our points of great importance, taunted and rated them very bitterly, and threatened if they gave not over, he would cause them to be cast into the river.

* 1825 , Sir (Walter Scott), , ch.iv:

He beheld him, his head still muffled in the veila man borne down and crushed to the earth by the burden of his inward feelings.

* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch.XV, ''Practical — Devotional

The successful monk, on the morrow morning, hastens home to . The successful monk, arriving at Ely, is rated for a goose and an owl; is ordered back to say that (Elmset) was the place meant.

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