Meaning

• A general type.

• Manner; form of being or acting.

• Condition above the vulgar; rank.

• A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).

• Group, company.

• A good-looking woman.

• An act of sorting.

  "I had a sort of my cupboard."

• An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.

  "Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort."

• A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.

• A type.

• Chance; lot; destiny.

• A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.