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сорт — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • brand noun A name, symbol, or identity that marks a product or company and distinguishes it from competitors.
  • breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  • flavor noun (American spelling) The distinct taste of a food or drink.
  • 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

сорт is used for these senses in English:

  • brand (by extension) Any specific type or variety of something; a distinct style or manner.
  • breed All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
  • cultivar A cultivated (not necessarily botanical) variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species. [from 1923]
  • flavor (particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
  • 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.
  • 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”).

brand — full definition

  1. noun A name, symbol, or identity that marks a product or company and distinguishes it from competitors.
  2. noun A particular make or type of product.
  3. noun A mark burned into skin or hide with a hot iron, especially to show ownership of livestock.
  4. verb To mark permanently with a hot iron, or to label someone unfairly with a lasting reputation.

breed — full definition

  1. verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  2. verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
  3. verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
  4. noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.

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