Assort

Definition: Assort

Assort

Verb

1. Keep company with; hang out with; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues".

2. Arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?".

Date "assort" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Assort \As*sort"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Assorted; Assorting.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Assort

Synonyms: affiliate (v), associate (v), class (v), classify (v), consort (v), separate (v), sort (v), sort out (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Arrangement	Verb: reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally. arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order; set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of, assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Assort

English words defined with "assort": Assorting ♦ Besort. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Ams Best Friends/Mothers 10c Assort (reference) Ams Clean Assort. IV 15c Assortment (reference) Ams Notes on Kitchen Table 20c Assort. (reference) Ams Paradise/Decept/Die 12c Audio Assort (reference) Men's Encyclopediaclopedia Assort (reference) (more book examples)

Consumer Goods	Dremel 688 Cut-Off Wheel Assort (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "assort"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përshtat (accommodate, adapt, adjust, arrange, enable, fit, fit in, match, readjust, regulate, retool, specialize, trim), klasifikoj (categorize, classify, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, label, range, rank, rate, separate, sort, sort out, type), grupoj (arrange in groups, distribute, group). (various references)

Arabic		‏نسق (arrangement, array, coordinate, echelon, gear to, layout, manner, match, mode, orchestrate, ordain, range, rate, regulate, series, system), ‏تجانس (analogy, homogeneity, identity, sympathize), ‏زود (accommodate, button, cap, chock, cover, eke out, equip, fit, fit out, furnish, gloss, irrigate, lend, outfit, provide, purvey, rig out, serve, set up, store, supply, tool up), ‏صنف (article, brand, categorize, category, class, classification, classify, compile, designate, digest, distinguish, distribute, grade, group, kind, label, pigeonhole, place, rank, rate, sort, species, stow, systematize, table, tabulate, type). (various references)

Bulgarian		сортирам (class, grade, jig, range, screen, separate, size, sort), снабдявам с асортимент от стоки, разпределям (admeasure, allocate, allot, apportion, deal out, dispense, distribute, give out, map out, measure, parcel out, part, plot, serve out, share out, slice, sort), групирам (classify, cluster, group, regiment), общувам (associate, consort, converse, fraternize, intercommunicate, intermingle, know, mate, mingle, mix, mix up, socialize, sort), подреждам (adjust, arrange, compose, dispose, do up, plash, pleach, preen, process, put in order, seriate, snug, sort out, tidy, trim), подхождам (agree, approach, become, befit, beseem, conform, do, fit, match, sit, sort). (various references)

Chinese		分类 (Assorted, Assorting, Assortment, categorise, categorised, Categorize, categorized, Classification, Classified, Classify, Classifying). (various references)

Czech		roztřídit (rank, re-sort, sort, sort through, Spall, staple). (various references)

Farsi		مناسب بودن (Able, Become, Befit, Seem, Suit), هم نشین شدن (Consort), طبقه بندی کردن (Breakdown, Categorize, Class, Grade, Label, Layer, Type), جورکردن (Accord, Adapt, Concert, Consort, Lot, Sort, Suit). (various references)

Finnish		lajitella (grade, sort). (various references)

French		assorti (assorted), s'assortir, classifier. (various references)

German		sortieren (classify, grade, sort, sort out, to assort, to sort). (various references)

Greek		ταξινομώ (categorize, class, classify, put in order, sort, tabulate). (various references)

Hebrew		למין (catalogue, classify, sort), לסו�' (catalogue, categorize, class, classify, grade, group, label, sort, type). (various references)

Hungarian		szortíroz (to sort, to staple), kiválogat (chose, chosen, garble, sort, to assort, to choose, to garble, to grade, to sort out, to weed out). (various references)

Indonesian		menyusun (arrange, compilate, conceive, configure, constitute, contrive, run along), bergaul (associate, interact, lihat: gaul). (various references)

Italian		assortire (match, sort). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		詰め合せる (to assort), 盛り合わせる (to assort, to heap with), 仕訳ける (to assort, to classify, to journalize), 仕分ける (to assort, to classify, to journalize). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しわける (to assort, to classify, to journalize), つめあわせる (to assort, to pack an assortment of goods), もりあわせる (to assort, to heap with). (various references)

Korean		분류하십시�" (categorise, Categorize, Classify, fractionate). (various references)

Pig Latin		assortay

Portuguese		adaptar-se (adapt, conform, fit, humor, humour, season, shake down, suit), ordenar (appoint, assign, bid, charge, class, command, decree, dictate, dispose, enact, enjoin, fix up, frock, impose, instruct, marshal, ordain, order, pigeonhole, post, prescribe, put in order, range, settle, sort, tell, tidy), dispor (afford, bunch, collocate, dispose, fix up, incline, lay out, line up, make, ordain, order, park, post, prepare, put right), concordar (accede, accept, accord, adhere, agree, approbate, assent, bring into agreement, chime, close, cohere, comply, concur, consent, correspond, cotton, covenant, emboss, let, own, subscribe, yes), combinar (agree, ally, bespeak, blend, coincide, combine, conjoin, conjugate, connect, go, join, make up, marshal, match, mix, put to, settle, unite), classificar (catalog, catalogue, categorize, class, classify, docket, grade, group, index, label, letter, pigeonhole, range, rank, rate, refer, size, sort, staple, subsume, tabulate). (various references)

Romanian		asorta (blend, furnish, sort, stock, suit), aproviziona cu sortimente, sorta (pick over, select, sort), se potrivi (agree, become, befit, coincide, comport, dovetail, fit, hit it off, jump together, register, tally, yoke together), se asorta, se asocia (associate, associate oneself, unite), grupa (classify, incorporate, pack), clasifica (class, classify, digest, distinguish, distribute, range, sort, sort into classes, tabulate). (various references)

Russian		сортировать (collate, grade, select, separate, sort, sorted). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		asortirati, svrstati (align, classify, line up, match, place, rank), sortirati (separate, sort). (various references)

Spanish		ordenar (accommodate, adjure, arrange, classify, command, confer, demand, enjoin, fill an order, line up, make, map out, Marshal, ordain, order, put in order, rank, set in order, set out, sort, table, tell off, tidy out, tidy up, will). (various references)

Swedish		sortera (grade, graduate, sort), ordna (adjust, arrange, arrange for, array, compose, dispose, do, dress, lay on, put in order, rank, regulate, see, settle, sort), överensstämma (agree, conform, correspond, quadrate, tally). (various references)

Turkish		ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow), yakışmak (become, befit, behoove, behove, comport, fit, go together, pertain, suit), uymak (abide by, accommodate oneself, accord, adapt, agree, answer, become, chime, chime in with, coincide, comply, comply with, comport, conform, consist, consort, correlate, correspond, defer, do, do for, fall with, fit, follow, gear, go, go together, go with, harmonize, keep, keep to, match, mate, obey, observe, pertain, quadrate, respect, sort together, Square, square with, string along with, suit, tally, tally with, tone, work in with), türlerine göre ayırmak, sınıflandırmak (categorize, class, classify, divide, grade, graduate, group, label, label as, rate, sort, sort out, subsume). (various references)

Ukrainian		узгоджувати (conform, coordinate, quadrate), сортувати (class, grade, pick, sort), розпадатися на групи, класифікувати (categorize, class, classify, distribute, group, pigeonhole, rank, relegate, sort), групувати (bank, bracket, group), гармоніювати (accord, cohere, consort with, fall in with, go well together, harmonize, tune), постачати (accommodate, administer, administrate, feed, fit up, fix out, furnish, nourish, provide, set up, stock, store, supply). (various references)

Welsh		trefnu (arrange, array, dispose, order), dosbarthu (allocate, apportion, class, classify, distribute). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old French	900-1400	sortir. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "assort": assortative, assortatively, assorted, assorter, assorters, assorting, assortment, assortments, assorts. (additional references)
	Words ending with "assort": reassort. (additional references)
	Words containing "assort": reassorted, reassorting, reassorts. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Assort" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asdor, asor, asort, asport, asrog, assern, Assir, Assirati, asso, Assur, Austoft, Issor, Issro, Lassarat, Tassotti. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "assort" (pronounced usô"rt)
4	-s ô" r t	consort, sort.
3	-ô" r t	abort, athwart, boart, bort, cavort, comport, contort, court, deport, distort, escort, exhort, extort, Fort, forte, import, misreport, Mort, ort, port, quart, report, resort, short, snort, sport, support, Swart, teleport, thwart, tort, torte, transport, underreport, wart.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: roasts.
	Words within the letters "a-o-r-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: oasts, ratos, roast, rotas, saros, soars, soras, sorts, stars, stoas, taros, toras, trass, tsars.
	-2 letters: arts, oars, oast, oats, orts, osar, ossa, rato, rats, rota, rots, soar, sora, sort, sots, star, stoa, taos, taro, tars, tass, tora, tors, toss, tsar.
	-3 letters: ars, art, ass, oar, oat, ora, ors, ort, ras, rat, rot, sat.
	Words containing the letters "a-o-r-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: aorists, aristos, assorts, castors, costars, pastors, sartors, satoris, stators.
	+2 letters: aerosats, airposts, alastors, amorists, arsonist, assentor, assertor, assistor, assorted, assorter, boasters, borstals, coarsest, coasters, costards, earshots, espartos, hoarsest, maestros, oralists, oratress, ostmarks, outsoars, passport, prosaist, protases, protasis, reassort, roasters, robustas, santours, sarodist, sautoirs, seaports, senators, shortias, sorbates, stardoms, starnose, storages, storaxes, stratous, surcoats, toasters, torsades, transoms, treasons, tsardoms, votaress.
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