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Assort   /əsˈɔrt/   Listen
verb
Assort  v. t.  (past & past part. assorted; pres. part. assorting)  
1.
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. Note: (Rarely applied to persons.) "They appear... no ways assorted to those with whom they must associate."
2.
To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods; as, to assort a cargo.


Assort  v. i.  To agree; to be in accordance; to be adapted; to suit; to fall into a class or place.





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"Assort" Quotes from Famous Books



... mamma, and now let me run And send it to heaven at once, For if He don't get it by Christmas time, He surely will think me a dunce." The letter was posted, the letter was scanned, With numberless grins by the men Whose duty it was to assort all the waifs That came ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls - Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 • Various
... was shrivelled in its saucer. In Margaret's old room the week's washing had been piled high on the bed. She took off her hat and linen coat, brushed her hair back from her face, flinging her head back and shutting her eyes the better to fight tears, as she did so, and began to assort the collars and shirts and put them away. For Dad's bureau—for Bruce's bureau—for the boys' bureau, table cloths to go downstairs, towels for the shelves in the bathroom. Two little shirtwaists for Rebecca with little holes torn through them where ...
— Mother • Kathleen Norris
... we stopped to assort and dry our baggage. All of us felt we had entered upon a race against starvation, and everything that was not strictly necessary to aid our progress to Northwest River Post we threw away. In addition to many odds and ends of clothing we abandoned about three pounds of tea. Tea was the one thing ...
— The Lure of the Labrador Wild • Dillon Wallace
... manners, the habits, the laws of the people, and very face of the country." How different is this course of activity to the usual luxurious lives of the sovereigns of civilized countries: how ill assort Peter's "savage" notions with the accomplished ease and personal elegance of a succeeding autocrat: how wide is the contrast between Peter's ship-building education, and the youth of a prince passed amidst court corruptionists—or pilotage over the boundless ocean, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 574 - Vol. XX, No. 574. Saturday, November 3, 1832 • Various
... to thee, that will I give, my friend, my pupil: these have been but trials to thy virtue—it comes forth the brighter for thy novitiate—think no more of those dull cheats—assort no more with those menials of the goddess, the atrienses of her hall—you are worthy to enter into the penetralia. I henceforth will be your priest, your guide, and you who now curse my friendship ...
— The Last Days of Pompeii • Edward George Bulwer-Lytton


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