sort betydelse and definition

Betydelse av sort på svenska

• 0 a group of things that are of the same type or that share similar qualities:

  • We both like the same sort of music.

  • I'm going to have a salad of some sort.

  • What sort of shoes will I need?

  • We saw all sorts (= many types) of animals in the park.

  • Many sorts of bacteria are resistant to penicillin.

  • This sort of camera is very expensive.

  • Plants of this sort need shady conditions.

  • Hmm, this is my sort of wine!

  • I'd have thought these black trousers were more your sort of thing.

  • I wouldn't have thought he was your sort (= was the type of man you would be attracted to).

  • They sell souvenirs, postcards, that sort of thing.

• 1 a person having the stated or suggested character:

  • He seemed like a decent sort to me.

• 2 to put a number of things in an order or to separate them into groups:

  • Paper, plastic, and cans are sorted for recycling.

  • I'm going to sort these old books into those to be kept and those to be thrown away.

  • You can use the computer to sort the newspaper articles alphabetically, by date, or by subject.

  • She found the ring while sorting (through) some clothes.

• 3 to deal with something by repairing or organizing it:

  • Can you sort the car by tomorrow?

  • We must get the phone sorted soon.

  • I must get this paperwork sorted before I go on holiday next week.

• 4 a group of things that are of the same type or that share similar qualities:

  • What sort of equipment will she need?

  • He was squinting through the eyepiece of some sort of navigational device.

  • What sort of person do you think I am?

  • He’s a sort of agent for athletes, but not officially.

  • She’s sort of running the company, I think, but her parents are still involved.

• 5 to put things in a particular order or separate them into groups according to a principle:

  • [ T ] We have to sort the job applications into groups based on their qualifications.

  • [ T ] Paper, plastic, and cans are sorted for recycling.

  • [ M ] Sort out the clothes that you don’t want, and we’ll donate them to a charity.

  • [ I always + adv/prep ] He spent hours sorting through the photos (= searching them to find one).

• 6 to put a number of things in an order or to separate them into groups:

  • Documents are sorted and indexed.

  • sort sth by sth Customer records can be sorted by name or by postcode.

• 7 a computer instruction that organizes things into a particular order:

  • He's written a sort program for the database.