[sɔːt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a category of things or people with a common feature; a type
(e.g: if only we knew the sort of people she was mixing with)

- the arrangement of data in a prescribed sequence

- a manner or way
(e.g: in law also the Judge is in a sort superior to his King)

- a letter or piece in a font of type


Phrases:
- after a sort
- in some sort
- it takes all sorts to make a world
- nothing of the sort
- of a sort
- out of sorts
- sort of
- sort out the men from the boys
- the — sort

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French sorte, from an alteration of Latin sors, sort- ‘lot, condition’

[sɔːt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- arrange systematically in groups; separate according to type
(e.g: the mail was sorted)

- resolve (a problem or difficulty)
(e.g: the problem with the engine was soon sorted)


Phrases:
- after a sort
- in some sort
- it takes all sorts to make a world
- nothing of the sort
- of a sort
- out of sorts
- sort of
- sort out the men from the boys
- the — sort

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French sorte, from an alteration of Latin sors, sort- ‘lot, condition’