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sort — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
  • flavor noun (American spelling) The distinct taste of a food or drink.
  • 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.

Senses

sort is used for these senses in English:

  • 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).
  • kind (type theory) The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.

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.

flavor — full definition

  1. noun (American spelling) The distinct taste of a food or drink.
  2. noun The distinctive character or quality of something.
  3. verb To add taste or seasoning to something.

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