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as⋅sort

  [uh-sawrt]
Use assort in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to distribute, place, or arrange according to kind or class; classify; sort.
2. to furnish with a suitable assortment or variety of goods; make up of articles likely to suit a demand.
3. Archaic. to group with others of the same or similar kind; connect or identify as of a similar class; associate (usually fol. by with).
–verb (used without object)
4. to agree in sort or kind; be matched or suited.
5. to associate; consort.
Origin:
1480–90; < MF assorter. See as-, sort

Related forms:
as⋅sort⋅a⋅tive, as⋅sort⋅ive, adjective
as⋅sort⋅a⋅tive⋅ly, adverb
as⋅sort⋅er, noun
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as·sort   (ə-sôrt')   
v.   as·sort·ed, as·sort·ing, as·sorts

v.   tr.

  1. To separate into groups according to kind; classify.

  2. To supply with (an appropriate variety or assortment, as of goods).

v.   intr.

  1. To agree in kind; fall into the same class.

  2. To associate with others; keep company.


[Middle English assorte, from Old French assorter : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + sorte, kind (from Latin sors, sort-, chance, lot; see ser-2 in Indo-European roots).]
as·sor'ta·tive (ə-sôr'tə-tĭv) adj., as·sort'er n.
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Word Origin & History

assort 
1490, "to distribute into groups," from M.Fr. assortir, from O.Fr. assorter "to assort, match," from a- "to" + sorte "kind" (see sort). Assortment in the sense of "group of things of the same sort" is attested from 1759, in the sense of "group of things whether the same sort or not" from 1791.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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