Assort (Verb)
Meaning 1
Keep company with; hang out with; "He associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her colleagues".
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
Examples
- The company will assort with several top brands to launch the new product line at the event.
- She began to assort with people outside of her social circle when she transferred to a new school.
- It's not good for your reputation to assort with people who engage in such shady dealings.
- The politician's enemies criticized him for choosing to assort with wealthy donors instead of ordinary citizens.
- After a bad experience, she vowed to be more cautious about who she chose to assort with online.
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Meaning 2
Arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?".
Classification
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
Examples
- The archaeologists carefully assort the artifacts from the excavation site before shipping them to the museum for further analysis.
- To better understand the species, the biologist began to assort the specimens into distinct categories based on their characteristics.
- In order to create a comprehensive database, the researcher tried to assort all the research data into different categories and subcategories.
- She took the time to assort each painting into different styles before creating a timeline of the artist's progression.
- The historian worked tirelessly to assort the documents and records from the past century into chronological order.
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- Reclassify
- Size
- Pigeonhole
- Isolate
- Unitize
- Group
- Unitise
- Refer
- Stamp
- Dichotomise
- Dichotomize
- Catalog
- Catalogue
- Count
- Grade
- Number
- Stereotype