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US
/əˈsɔɹt/
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VERB
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keep company with; hang out with
He associates with strange people
She affiliates with her colleagues -
arrange or order by classes or categories
How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?
How To Use assort In A Sentence
- The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- Adjacent to the restaurant is a bar, which is well stocked with an assortment of alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic drinks.
- The pet shop clerk had been helpful, showing him an assortment of mice and guinea pigs and even a pair of canaries, but in the end, Enoch had settled on the brown-and-white hamster.
- The drug smugglers used an assortment of inventive packaging to hide their illegal shipments.
- They watched in wonder as bankers, industrialists and assorted spivs piled up more and more riches.
- There are chocks of assorted age and make, battered into shapeless bashies, as well as many fine #1 Friends, sunk and overcammed deep into fingercracks which refuse to give up their dead.
- Sparrows, chickadees, woodpeckers, and an assortment of other creatures were awake and bustling that summer morning.
- He considers the mode of assorting the cards in each hand; often counting trump by trump, and honor by honor, through the glances bestowed by their holders upon each. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- Also among the rich assortment of intriguing pieces that fill each page are panels dating from c.1600, decorated with saints standing beneath baldacchinos.
- Now, from the left, comes a ragtag assortment of college kids, labor unionists, conspiracy theorists and others who've taken to the streets in protests dubbed "Occupy Wall Street.