Usually means: Arranges items in specific order.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. sorts: Merriam-Webster
  2. sorts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sorts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Sorts, sort's, sorts: Wordnik
  5. sorts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sorts: Wiktionary
  7. sorts: Dictionary.com
  8. sorts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Sorts, The Sorts: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Sorts: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. sorts: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. sorts: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sorts: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sorts: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sorts: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SORTS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. sorts: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SORTS: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sort)

noun:  A general type.
noun:  (archaic) Manner, way; form of being or acting.
noun:  (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
noun:  (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way.
noun:  (obsolete) Group, company.
noun:  (British, Australia, informal) A good-looking woman.
noun:  An act of sorting.
noun:  (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
noun:  (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
noun:  (mathematics) A type.
noun:  (obsolete) Fate, fortune, destiny.
noun:  (obsolete) Anything used to determine the answer to a question by chance; lot.
noun:  (obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes or a suit of clothes.
verb:  (transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.
verb:  (transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
verb:  (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
verb:  (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
verb:  (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
verb:  (British, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).
verb:  (British, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.
verb:  (transitive) To geld.
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