Out of sorts

Definition

sort /sↄ:t/ n ၁။ [C] အမ်ဳိး။ 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 ခြဲသည္။ ေရြးသည္။ မ်ဳိးတူစုသည္။ 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 ) စၾကဝဠာမွာ ျမင္းမိုရ္ေတာင္ရိွသလို ေနဇာျမက္လည္း ရိွရမည္။ ေလာကဇာတ္ခံု လူအဖံုဖံုရိွၾကသည္။ ❏ of a sort/of sorts [ IDM ] ( infml derog ) ေျပာျဖစ္႐ံု။ မည္ကာမတၱ။ It was a holiday of sorts, but we weren't able to relax much. ❏ out of sorts [ IDM ] ၁။ သ႐ိုးသရီျဖစ္[ေသာ]။ မအီမသာ ျဖစ္[ေသာ]။ She's been rather out of sorts lately. ၂။ စိတ္မၾကည္သာ[ေသာ]။ သုန္မႈန္[ေသာ]။ 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. ’ ❍ KIND 2 ❏ a sort of sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) (ထင္)သလိုလို။ I had a sort of feeling he wouldn't come. ❏ sort sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေရြးဖယ္သည္။ Sort out the smaller plants and throw them away. ၂။ ( infml ) ရွင္းသည္။ sort out the kitchen cupboards. ❏ sort out the men from the boys [ IDM ] ဆန္ခါတင္ ေရြးထုတ္သည္။ a difficult mountain climb that will certainly sort out the men from the boys. ❏ sort sth/sb/oneself out [ PHRV ] ေျဖရွင္းသည္။ အေျဖရွာ သည္။ 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 ) ႏိွပ္ကြပ္သည္။ (ဗန္း) ေဆာ္လဗန္ေတသည္။ Wait till I get my hands on him—I'll sort him out! ❏ sort through sth [ PHRV ] ေရြးသည္။ ရွင္းသည္။ sort through a pile of old photographs.

Examples

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