From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
*** Verb
[*]
1. [en] To clarify by reviewing mentally .
2. [en] To arrange .
3. [en] To fix (a problem ).
4. [en] To organise or separate into groups, _as_ a collection of items, so as to make tidy .
5. [en] To separate from the remainder of a group; _often construed with_ from.
6. [en] To take action to stop someone who has been causing trouble , often by physically attack ing them.
7. * [en]
8. [en] To provide (somebody) with a necessity, or a solution to a problem.
**** Usage notes
- In senses 1 and 2, the object typically refers to an abstraction: a problem, or a situation, or the like.
- In senses 3 and 4, the object may refer to any sort of collection — a collection of physical objects, or of people, or of abstractions. In sense 4, there is very often a _from_ phrase, characterizing the remainder of the collection.
- In sense 5, the object refers to a person or group of people.
- In all senses, the object may appear before or after the particle _out_ . If the object is particularly short or lexically "light" — as with all personal pronouns — it will usually appear before the particle ("sort it out"), and if it is particularly long or lexically "heavy" — as with a noun phrase with a modifier phrase attached — it will usually appear after it ("sort out the patients with scoliosis"). Intermediate-length objects may appear either before or after ("sort the wheat out", "sort out the wheat").
- In British usage, in sense of “to fix a problem”, often used without “out”, as in “I’ll get that sorted.”
**** Derived terms
- [en]
**** Translations
[to clarify]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to arrange]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to fix problem]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Portuguese: resolver completamente
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [disused] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to organise or separate into groups]
- Czech: [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Maori: [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to separate from the remainder of a group]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Maori: [mi]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[slang: to attack physically]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de] [with es] , [de]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[to provide (somebody) with a necessity]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[en]