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1. A general type.
2. Manner; form of being or acting.
3. (obsolete) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
4. (informal) A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).
5. (dated) Group, company.
6. (Australia, informal) A good-looking woman.
7. An act of sorting.
8. (computing) An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence. *
9. (typography) A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
10. (mathematics) A type.
11. (obsolete) Chance; lot; destiny.
12. (obsolete) A full set of anything, such as a pair of shoes, or a suit of clothes.^[1]

Synonyms

• (type): genre, genus, kind, type, variety
• (person): character, individual, person, type
• (act of sorting): sort-out
• (in computing): sort algorithm, sorting algorithm
• (typography): glyph, type
• class