What's the difference between ilk and sort?

Ilk


Definition:

  • (a.) Same; each; every.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We show that preservation of the correct PE carboxyl-terminal amino acid sequence, REDLK, allows the toxins containing TGF alpha carboxyl inserts to retain significant cytotoxicity against target cells, since another molecule (PE4E-TGF alpha-ILK) containing a nonfunctional carboxyl-terminal sequence was over 100-fold less active.
  • (2) We need to get back something of that ilk – where each team has three or four players from the home countries at the start of every match."
  • (3) Fashion's current preoccupation with art is effectively the death knell of the minimalist look – most art (Donald Judd and his ilk aside) is about getting messy.
  • (4) It is as honest as the report that emerged the same day from the world’s climate scientists, which demonstrated that if Exxon Mobil and its ilk keep their promise to dig up their reserves and burn them, then the planet will no longer function effectively.
  • (5) It's harder to romanticise living in such a dwelling in NYC – a Londoner can live in a bedsit and be reminded of Fleur and her ilk, but a New Yorker might be apt to think of SROs – but not impossible; in order to survive here, you have to develop the ability to romanticise just about anything.
  • (6) It's a little sweetly, wishy-washy in the body, but, for a beer of its ilk, it has a real thirst-quenching bitterness to it.
  • (7) It is a much more natural creed for rightists, like Charles, who dream of an ancient pastoral world where material goods were the prerogative of his ilk.
  • (8) Never mind that it was the overwhelmingly Tory shire votes of Jacob Rees-Mogg ’s ilk that swung the referendum, while two thirds of Labour voters were remainers.
  • (9) Some of us enjoyed it so much that we were all for Griffin and his ilk appearing on television all the time, purely in the spirit of political fair play, you understand.
  • (10) The trouble is that these supposed victims are very, very able to defend themselves and their ilk.
  • (11) You go to an amazing venue, there are influential people in the room of all ilks, people you wouldn’t normally meet in your day job.
  • (12) But it's clear that Chimpanzee and its ilk have strayed from the evolutionary path of nature documentary film-making.
  • (13) Forbes and his ilk have reached a sort of quantum theory of food: the more they look, the more they see.
  • (14) Democracy forgets you, no one cares what you think, and governments will spend a lot less on you and your ilk.
  • (15) Perhaps what Claire Alexander at the University of Manchester calls the “jovial bigotry” of Farage and his ilk has helped channel their rage.
  • (16) "If our critical culture handled films of this ilk with something other than kid gloves, we might not have to continually address these same, tired questions.
  • (17) But there is no need to apologise to somebody of that ilk.” Leicester are on an 11-game winless run and are bottom of the Premier League going into Saturday’s match at West Ham United, who are fourth.
  • (18) He told the Guardian: “I am delighted that Eddie Redmayne won [a Golden Globe for best actor], but we can’t just have a culture dominated by Eddie Redmayne and James Blunt and their ilk.
  • (19) A Mail Online columnist declared : “Next time you hear someone say we are safer IN the EU – remember Brussels.” And in an astonishing removal of guilt from the terrorist murderers, added: “Merkel – and her ilk – blew up Brussels.” I will vote to remain within the European Union, even though I am critical of its current incarnation and want to change it.
  • (20) Though frequently labelled super-injunctions, they are not of the same ilk as the case that prompted the original coining of the term, because it referred to the fact that the very existence of the injunction must remain secret.

Sort


Definition:

  • (n.) Chance; lot; destiny.
  • (n.) A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterized by the same or like qualities; a class or order; as, a sort of men; a sort of horses; a sort of trees; a sort of poems.
  • (n.) Manner; form of being or acting.
  • (n.) Condition above the vulgar; rank.
  • (n.) A chance group; a company of persons who happen to be together; a troop; also, an assemblage of animals.
  • (n.) A pair; a set; a suit.
  • (n.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered.
  • (v. t.) To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness.
  • (v. t.) To reduce to order from a confused state.
  • (v. t.) To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class.
  • (v. t.) To choose from a number; to select; to cull.
  • (v. t.) To conform; to adapt; to accommodate.
  • (v. i.) To join or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree.
  • (v. i.) To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Translation: 'We do less, you get yourself sorted.'"
  • (2) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
  • (3) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
  • (4) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
  • (5) After induction the aIL2r positive and negative cell subpopulations were sorted and analyzed separately for morphology, lineage specific cell surface markers, and clonogenic cell numbers.
  • (6) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
  • (7) Luminal and myoepithelial cells have been separated from normal adult human breast epithelium using fluorescence activated cell sorting.
  • (8) Those sort of year-to-year comparisons can be helpful to visualise changes in the market landscape, but in fast-changing markets it's not enough just to quote a single number.
  • (9) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
  • (10) But under Comey’s FBI, the agency has continued to disregard the justice department’s legal opinion, and to this day, demands tech companies hand it all sorts of data under due-process free National Security Letters.
  • (11) By mixing old and young slg- BM cells, we found that, in general, this reduction was not caused by a suppressive effect of T cells or of any other cells, but rather to lack of some sort of supportive cell or factor in the aged BM.
  • (12) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
  • (13) On the other hand, unsorted cells and non-CD3+Leu7+ sorted cells either enhance responses or produce less than 10% suppression under the same conditions.
  • (14) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.
  • (15) These results suggest that besides the maternal leucocytes, sufficient trophoblast nucleated fetal cells can be obtained using cell enrichment by sorting.
  • (16) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
  • (17) How often do we use the term depressed to mean disappointed, mildly bummed out or sort of blue?
  • (18) "The sort of people they do business with do not want their deals in the spotlight."
  • (19) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (20) I’m perfectly aware of the import of your question, and what we have done, very firmly for all sorts of good reasons, since September 2013, is not comment on operational matters because every time we comment on operational matters we give information to our enemies,” he said.

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