0 a group of things that are of the same type or that share similar qualities: --
I wouldn't have thought he was your sort (= was the type of man you would be attracted to).
I'd have thought these black trousers were more your sort of thing.
Hmm, this is my sort of wine!
Plants of this sort need shady conditions.
Many sorts of bacteria are resistant to penicillin.
What sort of shoes will I need?
I'm going to have a salad of some sort.
We both like the same sort of music.
2 to put a number of things in an order or to separate them into groups: --
3 to deal with something by repairing or organizing it: --
4 a group of things that are of the same type or that share similar qualities: --
5 to put things in a particular order or separate them into groups according to a principle: --
This is perhaps inevitable in an exercise of this sort.
But perhaps this isn't information of the right sort.
But perhaps they experience a certain perverse sense of satisfaction, a distorted sort of pleasure.
But one also wants some sort of explanation for why being a non-calculating friend or a just man makes one's life better.
This might not have been the sort of reform that the modernists, wanted, but ' church reform ' it was.
Unlike the first, where relationships had been built and some healing and closure was possible, nothing of the sort occurred in this case.
Trophoblasts would seem ideal targets for fetal cell sorting efforts because of their abundance at the fetal-maternal interface.
She reported eating all sorts of things she should not have.
