sort vs genre

sort and genre both are nouns.

sort is a verb but genre is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sort	Yes	No	Yes	No
genre	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, genre is a hyponym of sort; that is, genre is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sort:

sort: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
genre: a kind of literary or artistic work

Other hyponyms of sort include description, type, antitype, art form, style, flavor, flavour, color, colour, species, genus, brand, make, ilk, like, manner, model, stripe, like, the like, the likes of.

sort (noun)	genre (noun)
an approximate definition or example	a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality	a kind of literary or artistic work
a person of a particular character or nature	a style of expressing yourself in writing
an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion

sort (verb)	genre (verb)
arrange or order by classes or categories
examine in order to test suitability

Difference between sort and genre

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