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{
"term": "sort",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a group or type of people or things that are similar in a particular way",
"sensetop": "sort of somebody/something",
"labels": "(informal)(informal)(informal)(informal)(informal)(informal)",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "‘**What sort of** music do you like?’ ‘Oh, **all sorts**.’",
"contextForm": "sort of somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "**This sort of** problem is quite common./**These sorts of** problems are quite common."
},
{
"text": "He's **the sort of person** who only cares about money."
},
{
"text": "**The sort/sorts of people** who are having large families in the US and Ireland are very similar."
},
{
"text": "For dessert there's a fruit pie **of some sort** *(= you are not sure what kind)*."
},
{
"text": "Most people went on training courses **of one sort or another** *(= of various types)* last year."
},
{
"text": "There were snacks—peanuts, olives, **that sort of thing**."
},
{
"text": "There are **all sorts of** activities *(= many different ones)* for kids at the campsite."
},
{
"text": "**What sort of** price did you want to pay? *(= approximately how much)*"
},
{
"text": "**What sort of** time do you call this? *(= I'm very angry that you have come so late.)*"
},
{
"text": "Statements like these are not **the sort of stuff** you'd expect from one of Australia's most powerful women."
},
{
"text": "Tracey has been causing her mother **all sorts of problems** *(= many different ones)*."
},
{
"text": "He has been doing the same sort of thing for decades."
},
{
"text": "You get to go to all sorts of places."
},
{
"text": "It will be a different sort of challenge from last year."
},
{
"text": "We will not tolerate this sort of behaviour."
},
{
"text": "He just keeps asking all sorts of questions."
}
],
"synonyms": "kind",
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["best", "worst", "right"],
"preposition": ["sort of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a particular type of person",
"labels": "(informal, especially British English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "My brother is not the sort to lie about something like that."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the process of putting data in a particular order",
"labels": "(computing)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "to do a sort"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that you think somebody’s behaviour is very strange or unusual but that everyone is different and likes different things",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "‘They spent their honeymoon mountain climbing.’ ‘Oh well, it takes all sorts!’"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to emphasize that the situation is very different from what has been said",
"examples": [
{
"text": "‘I was terrible!’ ‘You were nothing of the sort.’"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used when you are saying that something is not a good example of a particular type of thing",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He offered us an apology of sorts."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "ill or upset",
"labels": "(especially British English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She was tired and out of sorts by the time she arrived home."
},
{
"text": "Are you feeling all right? You look a bit out of sorts."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to some extent but in a way that you cannot easily describe",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She sort of pretends that she doesn't really care."
},
{
"text": "‘Do you understand?’ ‘Sort of.’"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used for describing something in a not very exact way",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I had a sort of feeling that he wouldn't come."
},
{
"text": "She was jumping around like some sort of kangaroo."
},
{
"text": "They're a sort of greenish-blue colour."
},
{
"text": "I was glad about it afterwards, in a funny sort of way."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/sɔːt/",
"audio": "so/sort/sought__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/sɔːrt/",
"audio": "so/sort/sort__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French sorte, from an alteration of Latin sors, sort- ‘lot, condition’."
}