"That sort of person would sort the blocks into buckets" uses "sort" twice (differently) without implying some underlying metric for "people" or "blocks" and it

"That sort of person would sort the blocks into buckets" uses "sort" twice (differently) without implying some underlying metric for "people" or "blocks" and it's pretty clear in context. I saw a few people in the comments say they are surprised that "sort" would be used that way, but I'd bet money that they understood my example correctly. "The blocks were sorted by size" implies that there is some metric, and again, it's pretty clear in context.