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run upon sorts

run upon sorts verb: to use or require a greater number of some particular letters or symbols than the regular proportion, as, for example, when making an index.

Verb

run upon sorts (third-person singular simple present runs upon sorts, present participle running upon sorts, simple past ran upon sorts, past participle run upon sorts)

  1. (dated) To use or require a greater number of some particular letters or symbols than the regular proportion, as, for example, when making an index.
    • The writer remembers once printing a large index of map titles, which ran upon sorts so peculiarly that a two hundred-pound font of body letter had to be provided with two hundred pounds of sorts before the job was completed.American Printer and Lithographer (volume 25, page 327)

Forms of run upon sorts

third-person singular presentruns upon sorts
present participlerunning upon sorts
pastran upon sorts
past participlerun upon sorts

Questions about run upon sorts

What does run upon sorts mean?
Run upon sorts means to use or require a greater number of some particular letters or symbols than the regular proportion, as, for example, when making an index.
What part of speech is run upon sorts?
Run upon sorts is a verb.
What is the past tense of run upon sorts?
The past tense of run upon sorts is ran upon sorts.

Words near run upon sorts in the dictionary

  1. run up against
  2. run up in
  3. run up in it
  4. run up on
  5. run up the score
  6. run upon sorts
  7. run ups
  8. run wild
  9. run with
  10. run with scissors
  11. run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

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