assort

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Middle French assortir.

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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.
  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

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assort

  1. third-person singular present indicative of assortir