{
    "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’."
}