assort

Middle French assortir.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈsɔːt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈsɔɹt/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

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.
   • 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:

     They appear […] no way assorted to those with whom they must associate.

2. (intransitive) To be of a kind with, to harmonise or match.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 217:

     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.

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

• Astors, Astros, roasts, sortsa

• IPA^(key): /a.sɔʁ/

assort

1. third-person singular present indicative of assortir