Cases of word usage

1) any sort of drink except water, e.g. milk, tea, wine, beer (beverage)

2) the sort of food usually eaten (by a person, community etc); the sort of food (to be) eaten by a person in order to lose (or gain) weight (diet)

3) a measurement of any sort (especially length, height and width); extent (dimension)

4) a small, flying, blood-sucking insect, especially the sort that spreads malaria (mosquito)

5) definite; sure; leaving no room for doubt; of the sort caused by a lack of electrons (positive)

6) to return the same sort of bad treatment that one has received (retaliate)

7) like; of the same sort (similar)

8) of the present time; of the newest sort (up-to-date)