sort out the men from the boys

US pronunciation

American soundsort out the men from the boys

sortoutthemenfromthe

Syllables: 6 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

sort - out - the - men - from - the -> sort out the men from the boys

Myanmar meaning

Full entry

sort /sↄ:t/ n

၁။ [C] အမျိုး။ အစား။ He's the sort of person I really dislike. ❍ What sort of paint are you using? ❍ There's some sort of spice in it. ❍ I won't tolerate this sort of behaviour/behaviour of this sort. ❍ There are all sorts of (ie many types of) jobs you could do.
၂။ [C usu sing ] (infml ) အစား။ a good/decent sort ❍ He's not a bad sort really.
v ~ sth (out) (into sth); ~ sth (out) from sth ခွဲသည်။ ရွေးသည်။ မျိုးတူစုသည်။ sort out the dirty washing ❍ The computer sorts the words into alphabetical order. ❍ The letters are sorted by postcode.
❏ it takes all sorts (to make a world) [IDM ] (saying ) စကြဝဠာမှာ မြင်းမိုရ်တောင်ရှိသလို နေဇာမြက်လည်း ရှိရမည်။ လောကဇာတ်ခုံ လူအဖုံဖုံရှိကြသည်။
❏ of a sort/of sorts [IDM ] (infml derog ) ပြောဖြစ်ရုံ။ မည်ကာမတ္တ။ It was a holiday of sorts, but we weren't able to relax much.
❏ out of sorts [IDM ]
၁။ သရိုးသရီဖြစ်[သော]။ မအီမသာ ဖြစ်[သော]။ She's been rather out of sorts lately.
၂။ စိတ်မကြည်သာ[သော]။ သုန်မှုန်[သော]။ He's always out of sorts early in the morning.
❏ sort of [IDM ] (infml ) သလိုလို။ I sort of thought this might happen. ❍ You sort of twist the ends together. ❍ I feel sort of dizzy. ❍ ‘Do you understand?’ ‘Sort of. ’ ❍ KIND²
❏ a sort of sth [IDM ] (infml ) (ထင်)သလိုလို။
I had a sort of feeling he wouldn't come.
❏ sort sth out [PHRV ]
၁။ ရွေးဖယ်သည်။ Sort out the smaller plants and throw them away.
၂။ (infml ) ရှင်းသည်။ sort out the kitchen cupboards.
❏ sort out the men from the boys [IDM ] ဆန်ခါတင် ရွေးထုတ်သည်။ a difficult mountain climb that will certainly sort out the men from the boys.
❏ sort sth/sb/oneself out [PHRV ] ဖြေရှင်းသည်။ အဖြေရှာ သည်။ I'll leave you to sort this problem out. ❍ If you come to me for advice I'll soon sort you out. ❍ I need to sort my life/myself out a bit, before I start looking for a new job.
❏ sort sb out [PHRV ] (infml ) နှိပ်ကွပ်သည်။ (ဗန်း) ဆော်လဗန်တေသည်။ Wait till I get my hands on him—I'll sort him out!
❏ sort through sth [PHRV ] ရွေးသည်။ ရှင်းသည်။ sort through a pile of old photographs.

More examples

What sort are you looking for?
[sort of] : In that sort of situation Tom tends to panic.
[of some sort/some sort of] : Is this a joke of some sort?
[all sorts of] : He was asking us all sorts of questions about you.
[of this/that sort] : Mistakes of this sort happen every day.
Jane won’t be able to keep quiet about it – she’s not the sort.

Synonyms

kind, class, type, genus, species, variety, nature, arrange, array, assort, batch, battery, body, brand, breed, button down, catalogue, categorize, category, character, choose, classify, clutch, comb, cull, denomination, description, distribute, divide, family, file, grade, group, ilk, individual, likes, likes of, lot, make, number, order, organize, parcel, peg, person, personality type, pick, pigeonhole, place, put down as, put down for, put in order, put in shape, put to rights, quality, race, rank, riddle, screen, select, separate, set, sift, size up, sort out, soul, stamp, stripe, style, suite, systematize, tab, typecast, winnow

Antonyms

collect, disarrange, disorder, disorganize, gather, hold, individual, keep, maintain, mix up, one, refuse, reject, scatter