to assort
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4.2
- verb
- /əˈsɔrt/
:
clasificar
- Boxes of beads, feathers, and assorted junk cluttered the floor, and unfinished collages leaned against the wall.
- assorted other
- ill-assorted
So usually we end up assorting on our mate value.
- So usually we end up assorting on our mate value.
Examples
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It's this irrelevant cue has become the way by which I assort the world for that micro moment, right?
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By the time Mac arrived, I had most of my thoughts assorted.
Fiction book (2001) -
So usually we end up assorting on our mate value.
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Will lives alone on the dying farm with a menagerie of ill-assorted animals.
Academic text (2002) -
All the transcribed interviews were assorted into thematic units, each corresponding to a set of data obtained from interviewees.
Academic text (2002) -
The crowd is an eye-pleasing mix of yuppies, models, and assorted scene-makers; their noise is deafening.
Fiction book (2000) -
The teacher asked the students to assort the books by genre for the class project.
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At the market, vendors assort their fruits and vegetables into colorful displays.
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Before the event, volunteers will assort the supplies into categories for easy access.
Synonyms
451
1.0
To put things into groups by type or order
225
2.3
To tell how two things are different
110
3.4
To put people or things into groups based on shared features
59
3.5
To put things or people into groups by what they have in common
37
2.8
To put things into groups and into the right order
19
2.9
To put people or things into groups by shared features
2
5.0
To put people or things into the same group because they share a feature
Antonyms
How Sorted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Assort comes from an old Latin root sors and the familiar English word sort, both meaning 'kind' or 'type'. So to assort is to put things into kinds or groups.