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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ASSORT

From Old French assorter, from sortesort.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ASSORT

assort  [əˈsɔːt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ASSORT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Assort is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb assort in English.

WHAT DOES ASSORT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of assort in the English dictionary

The first definition of assort in the dictionary is to arrange or distribute into groups of the same type; classify. Other definition of assort is usually foll by with to fit or fall into a class or group; match. Assort is also to supply with an assortment of merchandise.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ASSORT

PRESENT

Present
I assort
you assort
he/she/it assorts
we assort
you assort
they assort
Present continuous
I am assorting
you are assorting
he/she/it is assorting
we are assorting
you are assorting
they are assorting
Present perfect
I have assorted
you have assorted
he/she/it has assorted
we have assorted
you have assorted
they have assorted
Present perfect continuous
I have been assorting
you have been assorting
he/she/it has been assorting
we have been assorting
you have been assorting
they have been assorting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I assorted
you assorted
he/she/it assorted
we assorted
you assorted
they assorted
Past continuous
I was assorting
you were assorting
he/she/it was assorting
we were assorting
you were assorting
they were assorting
Past perfect
I had assorted
you had assorted
he/she/it had assorted
we had assorted
you had assorted
they had assorted
Past perfect continuous
I had been assorting
you had been assorting
he/she/it had been assorting
we had been assorting
you had been assorting
they had been assorting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will assort
you will assort
he/she/it will assort
we will assort
you will assort
they will assort
Future continuous
I will be assorting
you will be assorting
he/she/it will be assorting
we will be assorting
you will be assorting
they will be assorting
Future perfect
I will have assorted
you will have assorted
he/she/it will have assorted
we will have assorted
you will have assorted
they will have assorted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been assorting
you will have been assorting
he/she/it will have been assorting
we will have been assorting
you will have been assorting
they will have been assorting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would assort
you would assort
he/she/it would assort
we would assort
you would assort
they would assort
Conditional continuous
I would be assorting
you would be assorting
he/she/it would be assorting
we would be assorting
you would be assorting
they would be assorting
Conditional perfect
I would have assort
you would have assort
he/she/it would have assort
we would have assort
you would have assort
they would have assort
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been assorting
you would have been assorting
he/she/it would have been assorting
we would have been assorting
you would have been assorting
they would have been assorting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you assort
we let´s assort
you assort
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to assort
Past participle
assorted
Present Participle
assorting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ASSORT


alphasort
ˈælfəˌsɔːt
besort
bɪˈsɔːt
besought
bɪˈsɔːt
consort
kənˈsɔːt
missort
ˌmɪsˈsɔːt
presort
priːˈsɔːt
re-sort
riːˈsɔːt
reassort
ˌriːəˈsɔːt
saut
sɔːt
sort
sɔːt
sought
sɔːt
unbesought
ˌʌnbɪˈsɔːt
unsought
ʌnˈsɔːt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ASSORT

associatively
associativity
associator
associatory
assoil
assoilment
assoilzie
assonance
assonant
assonantal
assonate
assortative
assortatively
assorted
assortedness
assorter
assortive
assortment
assot
assott

WORDS THAT END LIKE ASSORT

after a sort
broken consort
court of last resort
good sort
health resort
holiday resort
last resort
lender of last resort
prince consort
Q-sort
queen consort
resort
seaside resort
ski resort
skiing resort
special sort
summer resort

Synonyms and antonyms of assort in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ASSORT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «assort» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of assort

Translation of «assort» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ASSORT

Find out the translation of assort to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of assort from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «assort» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

ASSORT
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

assort
570 millions of speakers

English

assort
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

छांटना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

صنف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

разбирают
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

assort
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিভিন্ন শ্রেণীতে ভাগ করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

s´assortir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Assort
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

sortieren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

取りそろえる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

구색을 갖추다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Assort
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hợp nhau
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வகைப்படுத்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घोडागाडी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ayırmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

assortire
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

segregować
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розбирають
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

asorta
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

assort
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sorteer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

assort
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

assort
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of assort

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ASSORT»

The term «assort» is regularly used and occupies the 87.525 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ASSORT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «assort» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «assort» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about assort

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ASSORT»

Discover the use of assort in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to assort and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Guide To English Grammar: Conjugation of Verbs Volume 1
A. Guide. to. English. Grammar: Assort. (a) Active Voice Indicative Mood 1. 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. Singular I assort You assort He/she/it assorts Singular I assorted You assorted He/she/it assorted Singular I shall assort You ...
Bessie Brooks, 2013
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Genetics: A Conceptual Approach
Experiment Question: Do the genes for flower color and pollen shape in sweet peas assort independently? Cross two strains homozygous for two different traits. P generation Homozygous strains Purple flowers, long pollen Red flowers, round  ...
Benjamin A. Pierce, 2008
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Proceedings AIC 2003 Bangkok
3. Result. Table 1 shows the number of appearances of basic color, dominant color, assort color, and accent color in each year, seasons and the items of clothing contained in the software described above. The stably popular colors, meaning ...
Aran Hansuebsai, 2003
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AIC 2004 Color and Paints, Interim Meeting of the ...
ratios of the colored regions are 70 % for the main color, 25 % for assort color, and 5 % for accent color (Kawasaki 2002). Eight tri-color combinations used for the experiment were chosen from the image scale for color scheme proposed by  ...
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AIC 2004 Color and Paints, Proceedings, Interim Meeting of ...
ratios of the colored regions are 70 % for the main color, 25 % for assort color, and 5 % for accent color (Kawasaki 2002). Eight tri-color combinations used for the experiment were chosen from the image scale for color scheme proposed by  ...
various authors, Jose Luis Caivano, editor
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Genetics: A Conceptual Approach
Linked genes travel together in meiosis, eventually arriving at the same destination (the same gamete), and are not expected to assort independently. All of the characteristics examined by Mendel in peas did display independent assortment ...
Benjamin A. Pierce, 2010
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Transmission and Population Genetics
Experiment Question: Do the genes for flower color and pollen shape in sweet peas assort independently? Cross two strains homozygous for two different traits. P generation Homozygous strains Purple flowers, long pollen Red flowers, round  ...
Benjamin A. Pierce, 2008
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Principles of Life
The body color gene and the wing size gene did not assort independently; instead, they were frequently inherited together, and most of the progeny showed one or the other of the parental phenotypes (FIGURE 8.13). These results became ...
H. Craig Heller, 2012
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INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY
The macronucleus divides amitotically and, over a number of generations following conjugation, the alleles randomly assort to the progeny. With time, this random assortment gives rise to progeny with multiple copies of a single allele for the ...
Kwang W. Jeon, 1986
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Khe Sanh: Siege in the Clouds, an Oral History
The suuuuurrrrrrrrrrououououounding cou nding cou nding cou nding cou nding counnnnntttttryryryryryside is in f side is in f side is in f side is in f side is in full bl ull bl ull bl ull bl ull bloom wi oom wi oom wi oom wi oom with assort th assort th ...
Eric Hammel, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ASSORT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term assort is used in the context of the following news items.
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Deals and Steals: Fourth of July Style
Big assort many on a variety of styles so there's everything from these great little ballet boy shorts. Tank tops. Classics. Tanks, cammis, a lot of ... «ABC News, Jul 15»
2
Druze Villagers Kill Wounded Syrian in Israeli Ambulance
Motti Almoz reiterated past statemants that the military doesn't identify or assort by organization the injured Syrian rebels reaching the Israeli ... «Sentinel Republic, Jun 15»
3
10 Twin Cities restaurants with walk-up windows
... fish tacos and grilled walleye, the Tin Fish emphasizes a wide assort-ment of ways to enjoy fish and seafood. Burgers are also on the menu. «TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press, Jun 15»
4
Israeli and Syrian Druze join forces - complicating Israel's military …
Motti Almoz reiterated past statemants that the military does not identify or assort by organization the injured Syrian rebels reaching the Israeli ... «DEBKA file, Jun 15»
5
Gap To Close 175 Stores, Cut 250 Corporate Jobs
And we can afford to buy to it and assort to it in a more consistent and simple way. ROTT: Essentially, get rid of the stores that aren't worth ... «WUWM, Jun 15»
6
JC Penney moves to more closely align stores and the web
Ellison said J.C. Penney will “assort our online business in a way that we're going to bring in new customers,” as opposed to treating it as an ... «InternetRetailer.com, Jun 15»
7
Sports Today
... continue this great tradition for years to come! www.woodtheater.org/donate/. Our great theater wouldn't be able to bring a bountiful assort«Glens Falls Post-Star, Jun 15»
8
New Chief Charts Course for Orchard
We are different and Lowe's will never be able to micro-assort as a big box company. They have a very successful model doing what they do. Why change it? «Building-Products.com, Jun 15»
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Gmail App Download - Advantages Of Using Gmail
With the help of G-mail filters the users can quite easily assort e-mails in a number of ways; there are ways in which you can filter unwanted ... «Ordoh, Jun 15»
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Ulta Salon, Cosmetics and Fragrance's (ULTA) CEO Mary Dillon on …
Certainly being able to assort in segments better so that as we have different store formats or things that need more customized or localized ... «Seeking Alpha, May 15»

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