Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To separate into groups according to kind; classify.
- intransitive verb To supply with (an appropriate variety or assortment, as of goods).
- intransitive verb To agree in kind; fall into the same class.
- intransitive verb To associate with others; keep company.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To separate and distribute into classes, sorts, or kinds; part into lots; arrange; classify: as, to
assort goods. - To furnish with a suitable assortment or variety of goods; make up of articles likely to suit a demand: as, to
assort a cargo; “well-assorted warehouses,” - To make of the same sort; adapt or suit.
- To agree in sort or kind; be accordant or matched: as, the two kinds assort well or ill.
- To associate; consort.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To agree; to be in accordance; to be adapted; to suit; to fall into a class or place.
- transitive verb To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify. [Rarely applied to persons.]
- transitive verb To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
sort orarrange according tocharacteristic orclass . - verb intransitive To be of a
kind with. - verb intransitive To be
associated with; toconsort with.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb keep company with; hang out with
- verb arrange or order by classes or categories
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For one of her many specialties was the ability to immediately 'assort' all the foreigners with whom she mingled, and she used to declare that she could guess a man's nationality as soon as she had spoken ten words with him.
Norse Tales and Sketches Alexander Lange Kielland 1877
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We've had to retrench, pull back, and really kind of assort based upon what the consumer would expect to pay, number one, and number two, the kind of and type of items that are more day in and day out not driven so much and solely towards holiday type purchasing.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009
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Certainly it does not assort well with historical research portraying the difficulties Martin Luther King, Jr. had holding together the different Montgomery churches during the bus boycott.
Brendan Smith: Is Social Networking Useless for Social Change? Brendan Smith 2010
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Certainly it does not assort well with historical research portraying the difficulties Martin Luther King, Jr. had holding together the different Montgomery churches during the bus boycott.
Brendan Smith: Is Social Networking Useless for Social Change? Brendan Smith 2010
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Certainly it does not assort well with historical research portraying the difficulties Martin Luther King, Jr. had holding together the different Montgomery churches during the bus boycott.
Brendan Smith: Is Social Networking Useless for Social Change? Brendan Smith 2010
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Certainly it does not assort well with historical research portraying the difficulties Martin Luther King, Jr. had holding together the different Montgomery churches during the bus boycott.
Brendan Smith: Is Social Networking Useless for Social Change? Brendan Smith 2010
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On another note, death cab for cutie is for gays and other people of that assort.
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Does that hurt your ego so much and assort to attack the wrong target?
Mazda Has Michael Phelps Apologize to China - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Because you can bet your life, a loaded EU assort riffle pointed at yours, will get you running home to mummy soon enough.
LE WAR ON CAPITALISM 2009
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That they're not going to do that on their own, but they've just got assort all of this out, and essentially it's going to take some more time, John.
oroboros commented on the word assort
Contronymic in the sense: distribute vs. collect.
January 27, 2007