DIFFERENT SORT collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)

collocation in English

meanings of different and sort

different

adjective

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/ˈdɪf.ər.ənt/us

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/ˈdɪf.ɚ.ənt/

sort

noun

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/sɔːt/us

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/sɔːrt/

a group of things that are of the same type or that share ...

Examples of different sort

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A different sort of question about inequalities is the following.

The other accident is of a different sort.

Maimonides presents a hard line of a different sort concerning responsibility.

The book does nod in the direction of another very different sort of elucidation.

But you said they might have a different sort of knowledge, is that what you said?

To have determined these questions would have demanded a different sort of book.

Compare a different sort of case, where only an attitude changes.

Again, it is something that is very abstract but in a different sort of way here.

These more intelligent agents can now receive a reward for a different sort of partial recognition.

I think it humanizes them in a different sort of way.

It is a different sort of argument in a different sort of situation.

But their great men are of a very different sort, and their statues are put up for very different reasons.

In other types of applications it might be possible to specify ' 'interesting' ' states of a different sort.

Indeed, it may be the more substantial body of disability-oriented arguments are of a substantially different sort.

Furthermore, social considerations suggest that migration from the birth-place was a different sort of mobility from daily mobility.

A different sort of evidence regarding the salience of peer influences on risk has emerged from prevention studies.

The rest is practice of a different sort: recording cases of cruelty and humiliation, collecting information about them, explaining them, fighting them.

Repetition of trials, we suggest, is just a different sort of design variable from deception, scripting, and the use of financial incentives.

What they had in mind was knowledge of a different sort, the kind that was conducive to the forging of a strong and powerful nation.

You can find a different sort of magnetism in magstripe, a strip found on swipe cards, magnetic resonance imaging, and magnetic money.

A very different sort of reference work is the group of texts, some issued very recently, which list the names of blockcarvers.

To be sure there is value of a different sort in this type of tightly focused scholarship, even for the boldest of explorers.

It is a different sort of debate.

This is a different sort of assembly.

They are a different sort of priorities.

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