Sorte — meaning in English
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English meaning
- breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
- grade noun A mark or score showing how well someone did on a test or in a course.
- kind noun A type or category of thing that shares common features with others.
- sort noun A particular type or kind of something.
- strain verb To injure a muscle or tendon by overstretching or overusing it.
- variety noun A deviation or difference.
Senses
Sorte is used for these senses in English:
- breed A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
- cultivar A cultivated (not necessarily botanical) variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species. [from 1923]
- grade A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- kind (type theory) The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.
- strain (archaic) Race; lineage, pedigree.
- strain (biology) A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- variety (algebraic geometry) Ellipsis of algebraic variety (“the set of solutions of a given system of polynomial equations over the real or complex numbers; any of certain generalisations of such a set that preserves the geometric intuition implicit in the original definition”).
breed — full definition
- verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
- verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
- verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
- noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.
grade — full definition
- noun A mark or score showing how well someone did on a test or in a course.
- noun A level of quality, rank, or degree within a scale.
- noun A year or level of school (US usage), such as third grade or ninth grade.
- noun The slope or steepness of a road, hill, or railway track.
- verb To assign a score or mark to someone's work.