sort

noun

• A general type.
• Manner; form of being or acting.
• Condition above the vulgar; rank.
• A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).
• Group, company.
• A good-looking woman.
• An act of sorting.

  "I had a sort of my cupboard."

• An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.

  "Popular algorithms for sorts include quicksort and heapsort."

• A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
• A type.
• Chance; lot; destiny.
• A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.