The difference between Class and Sort
When used as nouns, class means a group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes, whereas sort means a general type.
When used as verbs, class means to assign to a class, whereas sort means to separate according to certain criteria.
Class is also adjective with the meaning: great.
check bellow for the other definitions of Class and Sort
-
Class as a noun (countable):
A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
Examples:
"The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class."
"That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny."
"Often used to imply membership of a large class."
"This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions."
-
Class as a noun (sociology, countable):
A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.
-
Class as a noun (uncountable):
The division of society into classes.
Examples:
"Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England."
-
Class as a noun (uncountable):
Admirable behavior; elegance.
Examples:
"Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class."
-
Class as a noun (education, countable, and, uncountable):
A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
Examples:
"The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story."
-
Class as a noun:
A series of classes covering a single subject.
Examples:
"I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot."
-
Class as a noun (countable):
A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.
Examples:
"The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy."
-
Class as a noun (countable):
A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
Examples:
"I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy."
-
Class as a noun (taxonomy, countable):
A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.
Examples:
"Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida."
-
Class as a noun:
Best of its kind.
Examples:
"It is the class of Italian bottled waters."
-
Class as a noun (set theory):
A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
Examples:
"The class of all sets is not a set."
"Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class."
-
Class as a noun (military):
A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.
-
Class as a noun (object-oriented, countable):
A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.
Examples:
"an abstract base class'"
-
Class as a noun:
One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
-
Class as a verb (transitive):
To assign to a class; to classify.
Examples:
"I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period."
-
Class as a verb (intransitive):
To be grouped or classed.
-
Class as a verb (transitive):
To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
-
Class as an adjective (Irish, British, slang):
great; fabulous
-
Sort as a noun:
A general type.
-
Sort as a noun:
Manner; form of being or acting.
-
Sort as a noun (obsolete):
Condition above the vulgar; rank.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
-
Sort as a noun (dated):
Group, company.
-
Sort as a noun (informal):
A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.).
Examples:
"This guy's a decent sort."
-
Sort as a noun (Australia, informal):
A good-looking woman.
-
Sort as a noun:
An act of sorting.
Examples:
"I had a sort of my cupboard."
-
Sort as a noun (computing):
An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
Examples:
"Popular sorts include quicksort and heapsort."
-
Sort as a noun (typography):
A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.
-
Sort as a noun (mathematics):
A type.
-
Sort as a noun (obsolete):
Chance; lot; destiny.
-
Sort as a noun (obsolete):
A pair; a set; a suit.
Examples:
"rfquotek Johnson"
-
Sort as a verb (transitive):
To separate according to certain criteria.
-
Sort as a verb (transitive):
To arrange into some order, especially numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.
-
Sort as a verb (British):
To fix a problem, to handle a task; to sort out.
-
Sort as a verb (transitive):
To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
-
Sort as a verb (intransitive):
To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
-
Sort as a verb (intransitive):
To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.
-
Sort as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
-
Sort as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To choose from a number; to select; to cull.