## Meanings
1. A type or kind of thing or person.
2. To arrange things into groups according to type or order.
3. To deal with or fix a problem successfully.

## Examples
- What sort of music do you like?
- She sorted the letters into different piles.
- Don't worry, I'll sort out the dishes.

## Synonyms
- character
- glyph
- individual
- person
- type

## Derived Forms
- alphasort
- archaeosortase
- besort
- cubesort
- immunosort
- mergesort
- missort
- pick-and-sort
- presort
- re-sort
- resort
- serosort

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *ser- (bind)
- Root: sort
- Root: sorte
- Root: sortem

## Etymology
From Middle English sort, soort, sorte (cognate 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”).

## AI Etymology
Sort is from Middle English sort, soort, sorte (cognate 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”). Important forms in the word's history include Proto-Indo-European *ser- (bind), Middle English sort, Old French sorte, Latin sortem. In current use it includes senses such as A type or kind of thing or person and To arrange things into groups according to type or order.

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