- after a sort
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phrasal
in a rough or haphazard way <plays the piano, after a sort>
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after a sort
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after a sort — phrasal : in a rough, unfinished, or haphazard way : after a fashion * * * after a sort To some extent • • • Main Entry: ↑sort * * * dated after a fashion … Useful english dictionary
sort — [sôrt] n. [ME < MFr < VL * sorta < L sors (gen. sortis), lot, chance, fate, akin to serere, to join together, arrange: see SERIES] 1. any group of persons or things related by having something in common; kind; class 2. quality or type;… … English World dictionary
sort — n. & v. n. 1 a group of things etc. with common attributes; a class or kind. 2 (foll. by of) roughly of the kind specified (is some sort of doctor). 3 colloq. a person of a specified character or kind (a good sort). 4 Printing a letter or piece… … Useful english dictionary
sort — sortable, adj. sortably, adv. sorter, n. /sawrt/, n. 1. a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort. 2.… … Universalium
sort — [[t]sɔrt[/t]] n. 1) a particular kind, class, or group; category: two sorts of people rich and poor[/ex] 2) character, quality, or nature: friends of a nice sort[/ex] 3) an example of something that is undistinguished: He is a sort of poet[/ex]… … From formal English to slang
Sort (C++) — sort is a function in C++ Standard Template Library that takes two random access iterators, the start and the end, as arguments and performs a comparison sort on the range of elements between the two iterators, front inclusive and end exclusive.… … Wikipedia
After Eden — Album par Kalafina Sortie 21 septembre 2011 Genre Jpop … Wikipédia en Français
After School — (coréen : 애프터스쿨) est un groupe de musique pop féminin sud coréen créé en 2009, composé de huit chanteuses nées entre 1980 et 1992. Il est au départ formé de six membres, mais l une d elle part fin 2009, et trois nouvelles le rejoignent peu… … Wikipédia en Français
sort — 1 noun 1 TYPE (C) especially BrE a group or class of people, things etc that have similar qualities or features; type (+ of): What sort of shampoo do you use? | all sorts of (=a lot of different types of things): soup flavoured with all sorts of… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
After a fashion — Fashion Fash ion, n. [OE. fasoun, facioun, shape, manner, F. facon, orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to make. See {Fact}, {Feat}, and cf. {Faction}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
