different between sort vs species

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /s??t/
• Homophone: sought (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (= Dutch soort, German Sorte, Danish sort, Swedish sort), borrowed from Old French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sortem, accusative form of sors (“lot, fate, share, rank, category”).

Noun

sort (plural sorts)

1. A general type.
2. Manner; form of being or acting.
   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

3. (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.

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

5. (dated) Group, company.
6. (Britain, informal) A good-looking woman.
7. An act of sorting.

8. (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.

9. (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
10. (mathematics) A type.
11. (obsolete) Chance; lot; destiny.

12. (obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sort.

Synonyms

• (type): genre, genus, kind, type, variety
• (person): character, individual, person, type
• (act of sorting): sort-out
• (in computing): sort algorithm, sorting algorithm
• (typography): glyph, type
• See also Thesaurus:class

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French sortir (“allot, sort”), from Latin sortire (“draw lots, divide, choose”), from sors.

Verb

sort (third-person singular simple present sorts, present participle sorting, simple past and past participle sorted)

2. (transitive) To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts.

   Synonyms: categorize, class, classify, group
4. (transitive) To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.

   Synonyms: order, rank

5. (transitive) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
8. (intransitive) To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
9. (intransitive) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
11. (Britain, colloquial, transitive) To fix (a problem) or handle (a task).

    Synonym: sort out

12. (Britain, colloquial, transitive) To attack physically.

    Synonym: sort out

    If he comes nosing around here again I'll sort him!

13. (transitive) To geld.

Usage notes

• In British sense “to fix a problem”, often used in constructions like “I’ll get you sorted” or “Now that’s sorted” – in American and Australian usage sort out is used instead.

Derived terms

• re-sort, resort
• sorted
• sorting
• sort out

Translations

Further reading

• sort at OneLook Dictionary Search
• sort in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Anagrams

• RTOS, RTOs, TROs, orts, rost, rots, tors

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan sort, from Latin sortem, accusative singular of sors, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?s??t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?s?rt/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

sort f (uncountable)

1. luck

2. fortune

Derived terms

Further reading

• “sort” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sort” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sort” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sort” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse svartr (“black”), from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swordo- (“dirty, dark, black”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?so??d?]

Adjective

sort

1. black (absorbing most light)
2. under the table; done in secret so as to avoid taxation

Inflection

Derived terms

• (illicitly undisclosed): sort arbejde, sorte penge, sort marked

Adverb

sort

1. under the table; secretly, so as to avoid taxation

Derived terms

• arbejde sort

See also

References

• “sort,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French sorte (“class, kind”), from Latin sors (“lot, fate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s??d?]

Noun

sort c (singular definite sorten, plural indefinite sorter)

1. sort, kind
2. quality
3. brand
4. (botany) cultivar

Declension

References

• “sort,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Estonian

Etymology

From German Sorte.

Noun

sort (genitive sordi, partitive sorti)

1. kind, sort, brand

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/
• Homophone: sors
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Old French sort, from Latin sortem, accusative singular of sors, from Proto-Italic *sortis, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind”). Cf. also the borrowed doublet sorte.

Noun

sort m (plural sorts)

1. fate, destiny (consequences or effects predetermined by past events or a divine will)
2. lot (something used in determining a question by chance)
3. spell (magical incantation)

Derived terms

• le sort en est jeté
• mauvais sort
• tirage au sort
• tirer au sort

Related terms

• sorcier
• sorte
• sortir

Etymology 2

See sortir.

Verb

sort

1. third-person singular present indicative of sortir

Further reading

• “sort” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian

Alternative forms

• sord (alternative orthography)

Etymology

From Latin surdus.

Adjective

sort

1. deaf

Related terms

• sordine

See also

• mut

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ort]
• Rhymes: -ort

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English shorts.

Noun

sort (plural sortok)

1. shorts (pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees)

Declension

Synonyms

• rövidnadrág

Etymology 2

sor +? -t

Noun

sort

1. accusative singular of sor

Derived terms

• sort kerít

References

Norman

Etymology

From Old French sort, from Latin sors, sortem.

Noun

sort m (plural sorts)

1. (Jersey) fate

Synonyms

• destinné (“fate, destiny”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse svartr; compare Danish sort

Alternative forms

• svart

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Adjective

sort (neuter singular sort, definite singular and plural sorte, comparative sortere, indefinite plural sortest, definite plural sorteste)

1. black (colour)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French sorte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

sort m (definite singular sorten, indefinite plural sorter, definite plural sortene)

1. a sort, kind or type

References

• “sort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French sorte.

Noun

sort m (definite singular sorten, indefinite plural sortar, definite plural sortane)

1. a sort, kind or type

References

• “sort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Plautdietsch

Noun

sort f (plural Sorten)

1. sort, kind, type, ilk, variety

Polish

Etymology

From French sorte, from Old French sorte, from Latin sors, sortem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?rt/

Noun

sort m inan

1. (colloquial) sort (type)

   Synonyms: gatunek, rodzaj

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) sortowa?, posortowa?, przesortowa?, wysortowa?
• (nouns) sortomierz, sortowacz, sortowaczka, sortownik, sortownica, sortownia

Related terms

• (noun) sorter
• (noun phrase) sortownik papierniczy
• (adjective) sortowniczy

Further reading

• sort in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• sort in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French sorte.

Noun

sort n (plural sorturi)

1. sort, kind, variety

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French sorte.

Pronunciation

Noun

sort c

1. sort, kind

Declension

Synonyms

• slag

Anagrams

• Tors, orts, rost, rots, stor, tros

English

Etymology

From Latin speci?s (“appearance; quality”), from speci? (“see”) + -i?s suffix signifying abstract noun. Doublet of spice

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spi??i?z/, /?spi?si?z/. Some speakers pronounce the singular with -?z, the plural with -i?z.

Noun

species (plural species or (rare, nonstandard) specieses)

1. Type or kind. (Compare race.)
   • 1871, Richard Holt Hutton, Essays, Theological and Literary

     What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
   1. A group of plants or animals having similar appearance.
   2. (biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below genus; a taxon at that rank.
      • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:

        Hence, in determining whether a form should be ranked as a species or a variety, the opinion of naturalists having sound judgment and wide experience seems the only guide to follow.
   3. (chemistry, physics) A particular type of atom, molecule, ion or other particle.
   4. (mineralogy) A mineral with a unique chemical formula whose crystals belong to a unique crystallographic system.
2. An image, an appearance, a spectacle.
   1. (obsolete) The image of something cast on a surface, or reflected from a surface, or refracted through a lens or telescope; a reflection.

   2. Visible or perceptible presentation; appearance; something perceived.

      • Wit, […] the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent.

      • the species of the letters illuminated with indigo and violet

   3. A public spectacle or exhibition.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

3. (Christianity) Either of the two elements of the Eucharist after they have been consecrated.
4. Coin, or coined silver, gold, or other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.
   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures

     There was, in the splendour of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.

5. A component part of compound medicine; a simple.
6. An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; especially, one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Thomas de Quincey to this entry?)

Usage notes

• species is its own plural; specie is a separate word that means coin money.
• (biology, taxonomy): See species name, binomial nomenclature.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• race
• (taxonomy, rank):
  • domain
  • kingdom
  • phylum/division
  • class
  • order
  • family
  • genus
  • superspecies
  • species
    • subspecies, form
    • (botany, horticulture): variety, cultivar

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “species”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Noun

species

1. plural of specie

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

species

1. Plural form of specie

Synonyms

• speciën

Latin

Etymology

From speci? (“see”) + -i?s suffix signifying abstract noun.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?spe.ki.e?s/, [?s?p?kie?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?spe.t??i.es/, [?sp??t??i?s]

Noun

speci?s f (genitive speci??); fifth declension

1. a seeing, view, look
2. a spectacle, sight
3. external appearance, looks; general outline or shape
4. semblance, pretence, pretext, outward show
5. show, display
6. (figuratively) vision, dream, apparition
7. (figuratively) honor, reputation
8. (figuratively) a kind, quality, type
9. (law, later) a special case

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Derived terms

• speci?tim

Descendants

References

• species in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• species in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• species in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.