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assort

/əˈsɔːt/US/əˈsɔɹt/

assort verb: to sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.

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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.
    • They appear […] no way assorted to those with whom they must associate.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
  2. (intransitive) To be of a kind with, to harmonise or match.
    • 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.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 217
  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

assort meaning in Tamil and Kannada

assort in Tamil

வகைப்படுத்து, ஒழுங்குபடுத்து, தொகுப்பில் சேர், வகைப்படு, கூடிப்பழகு

assort in Kannada

ಬೇರ‍್ಪಡಿಸು, ಹಂಚು

Forms of assort

third-person singular presentassorts
present participleassorting
past participleassorted
pastassorted

Origin of assort

Middle French assortir.

Words formed from assort

Words that rhyme with assort

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Questions about assort

What does assort mean?
Assort means to sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.
What is assort in Tamil?
Assort in Tamil is வகைப்படுத்து, ஒழுங்குபடுத்து, தொகுப்பில் சேர். See Assort meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is assort?
Assort is a verb.
How do you pronounce assort?
Assort is pronounced /əˈsɔːt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of assort?
The past tense of assort is assorted.

Words near assort in the dictionary

  1. assonated
  2. assonates
  3. assonating
  4. Assonet
  5. assoon
  6. assort
  7. assortation
  8. assortations
  9. assortative
  10. assortative mating
  11. assortative matings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: assort (page history and authors); assort (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); assort (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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