Sort vs Temper - What's the difference?

Sort is a related term of temper.

As nouns the difference between sort and temper

is that sort is kind, type, sort or sort can be fate, destiny, chance while temper is a tendency to be of a certain type of mood.

As a verb temper is

to moderate or control.

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)

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

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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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Anagrams

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temper

English

(wikipedia temper)

Alternative forms

* tempre (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

A tendency to be of a certain type of mood.

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State of mind.

* 1719- (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)

The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.

the temper of mortar

(obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.

* Fuller

The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper increased the exquisiteness of his torment.

The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.

Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.

to keep one's temper

* Alexander Pope

To fall with dignity, with temper rise.

* Ben Jonson

Restore yourselves to your tempers , fathers.

The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.

the temper of iron or steel

Middle state or course; mean; medium.

* Macaulay

The perfect lawgiver is a just temper between the mere man of theory, who can see nothing but general principles, and the mere man of business, who can see nothing but particular circumstances.

(sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.

Derived terms

* lose one's temper * short temper * short-tempered

Synonyms

* (tendency of mood) disposition

Coordinate terms

* (Heat treatment) quenching

Verb

(en verb)

To moderate or control.

Temper your language around children.

To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.

Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a controlled reheating of the work piece to a temperature below its lower eutectic critical temperature.

* Dryden

The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound.

To spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.

To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.

(music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.

(obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.

* Spenser

With which the damned ghosts he governeth, / And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth .

(archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.

* 1610 , , act 3 scene 3

You fools! I and my fellows

Are ministers of fate: the elements

Of whom your swords are temper'd may as well

Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs

Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish

One dowle that's in my plume;

(archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.

* Bancroft

Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system.

* Otway

Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee / To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

* Byron

But thy fire / Shall be more tempered , and thy hope far higher.

* Addison

She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colours.

(obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

* Bible, Wisdom xvi. 21

Thy sustenance serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking.

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