Difference between Kind and Sort

Kind

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Affectionate, showing benevolence. Favorable. mild, gentle, forgiving

Part of speech: adverb

Definition:

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together. A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen. One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition. In goods or services (as in barter), rather than money (as in pay in kind). By the same means (as in I'll pay in kind for his insult).

Example sentence: Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Sort

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A general type.group, company.A person.An act of sorting.An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular order.A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To separate according to certain criteria.To arrange into some order, especially numerically, alphabetically or chronologically.To fix a problem, to handle a task; to sort out.

Example sentence: I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.