phylum vs sort

phylum

noun
  • A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another. 

  • A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank 

sort

noun
  • A type. 

  • An act of sorting. 

  • An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence. 

  • A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style. 

  • Manner; form of being or acting. 

  • A general type. 

  • A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.). 

  • A good-looking woman. 

verb
  • To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree. 

  • To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize. 

  • To fix (a problem) or handle (a task). 

  • To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically. 

  • To attack physically. 

  • To geld. 

  • To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts. 

  • To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. 

How often have the words phylum and sort occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )