- kind, sort, form, variety - a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?"
--1 is a kind of category
--1 has particulars:description; type; antitype; art form; style; flavor, flavour; color, colour; species; genus; brand, make; genre; ilk; manner; model; stripe; the like, the likes of Derived form: verb sort2 - sort - an approximate definition or example; "she wore a sort of magenta dress"; "she served a creamy sort of dessert thing"
--2 is a kind of similarity
- sort - a person of a particular character or nature; "what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort"
--3 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
- sort, sorting - an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery it the process of sorting"
--4 is a kind of operation
Derived forms: verb sort2, verb sort1 - sort - a person of a particular character or nature; "what sort of person is he?"; "he's a good sort"
- screen, screen out, sieve, sort - examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"
--1 is one way to choose, take, select, pick out
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun sort4
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate - arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
--2 is one way to categorize, categorise
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun sort1, noun sort4, noun sorter1, noun sorter2, noun sorting1, noun sorting3
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody