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Definition of Assort
1. Verb. Keep company with; hang out with. "She affiliates with her colleagues"
Generic synonyms: Interact
Specialized synonyms: Ally, Date, Go Out, Go Steady, See, Accompany, Companion, Company, Keep Company
Derivative terms: Associate, Association, Association, Consort
2. Verb. Arrange or order by classes or categories. "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?"
Specialized synonyms: Unitise, Unitize, Catalog, Catalogue, Isolate, Refer, Reclassify, Size, Dichotomise, Dichotomize, Pigeonhole, Stamp, Stereotype, Group, Grade, Count, Number
Entails: Compare
Generic synonyms: Categorise, Categorize
Derivative terms: Assortment, Class, Class, Class, Class, Class, Classification, Classification, Classification, Classificatory, Classifier, Sort, Sort, Sorter, Sorter, Sorting, Sorting
Definition of Assort
1. v. t. 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; as, to assort goods. [Rarely applied to persons.]
2. v. i. To agree; to be in accordance; to be adapted; to suit; to fall into a class or place.
Definition of Assort
1. Verb. (transitive) To sort or arrange according to characteristic or class. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To be of a kind with. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To be associated with; to consort with. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Assort
1. to distribute into groups according to kind or class [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Literary usage of Assort
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"... cloth' will never assort with 'the old gar- j pen, which seems plucked by a
fallen spirit ment.' ' from a seraph's wing. His fine imagination elevation, ..."
2. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1907)
"... of Adam's Natural Headship, arc all Old School theories, and have for their
common characteristic that they assort the guilt of inborn depravity. ..."
3. Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of John Howard, the Philanthropist by James Baldwin Brown (1823)
"t therefore, might the writer of that letter assort, that in those memoirs Mr.
Howard's friends found " a character delineated of which they never ..."
4. Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn (1881)
"assorting goods according to the quality, or brand. — iuo suri', to assort goods.
... assort ..."
5. Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear by Kent Oscanyan Foltz (1906)
"... assort- FIG. o29. Worrell's folding spring head band. ment is preferable.
A tongue depressor, the style of which will depend upon individual preference. ..."
6. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Admiralty of England: And on by Great Britain High Court of Admiralty, Vernon Lushington (1868)
"The master, As to the third point, the claim for damages for non-assort- cargo
wrong- DJ the ment, that the cargo was not assorted, and that hereby its sale ..."
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