assort

English

Etymology

Middle French assortir.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈsɔːt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈsɔɹt/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Verb

assort (third-person singular simple present assorts, present participle assorting, simple past and past participle assorted)

1. (transitive) To sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.
   • 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:

     They appear […] no way assorted to those with whom they must associate.

2. (intransitive) To be of a kind with, to harmonise or match.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 217:

     She wore a peruke of very fair golden hair; and herein was shown the lurking spirit of female vanity: her own tresses had been very beautiful; in some whim she had had them shaven off, but the colour of the peruke had been most assiduously assorted to them.

3. (intransitive) To be associated with; to consort with.
4. (transitive) To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods.

   to assort a cargo

Derived terms

• assortation
• assortative
• assorter
• assortment
• ill-assorted
• reassort

 

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ser- (4 c, 0 e)

Translations

To sort or arrange according to characteristic or class

• Bulgarian: сортирам (bg) (sortiram), подреждам (bg) (podreždam)
• Hungarian: osztályoz (hu), besorol (hu)
• Irish: rangaigh
• Russian: сортировать (ru) (sortirovatʹ), подбира́ть (ru) (podbirátʹ), группировать (ru) (gruppirovatʹ), классифици́ровать (ru) (klassificírovatʹ)
• Spanish: clasificar (es), ordenar (es)

To be associated with; to consort with

• Bulgarian: съгласувам се (sǎglasuvam se), хармонирам (bg) (harmoniram)
• Russian: согласова́ться (ru) impf (soglasovátʹsja), согласо́вываться (ru) impf (soglasóvyvatʹsja), гармони́ровать (ru) impf (garmonírovatʹ), подходи́ть (ru) impf (podxodítʹ)

Anagrams

• Astors, Astros, roasts, sortsa

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sɔʁ/

Verb

assort

1. third-person singular present indicative of assortir