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Assorted   /əsˈɔrtɪd/   Listen
verb
Assort  v. t.  (past & past part. assorted; pres. part. assorting)  
1.
To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods. Note: (Rarely applied to persons.) "They appear... no ways assorted to those with whom they must associate."
2.
To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods; as, to assort a cargo.


Assort  v. i.  To agree; to be in accordance; to be adapted; to suit; to fall into a class or place.


adjective
Assorted  adj.  Selected; culled.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Assorted" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought possible by the English envoy. By such a family arrangement it was obvious that the conflicting claims of father and daughter to the proprietorship of France would be ingeniously adjusted, and the children of so well assorted a marriage might reign in undisputed legitimacy over France and Spain, and the rest of the world-monarchy. Should the king decide on the whole against this matrimonial project, should Innocent or Clement prove as intractable as Sixtus, then it would be ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... Clearance Association definitely specified and duly handled exactly four hundred and twenty-eight grades of this particular grain. Even straight Northern wheat, without the taint of weed-seed, may be classified in any of the different numbers up to six, and also assorted into "tough," "wet," "damp," "musty," "binburnt" and half a dozen other grades and conditions, according to the season. But since I'm to be a wheat-grower, it's my duty to find out all I ...
— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer
... fate of this unhappy pair, an impulsive uneducated kind of Irish orange-girl married to a contemptible young sot, is not a pleasant termination to the story, nor is the anticipatory sadness felt for the future of this ill-assorted couple in any way dissipated by the stereotyped and perfunctory offer of marriage made by the young London Journal Nobleman to the daughter of the utterly crushed snob just ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, December 5, 1891 • Various
... cormorants; and the congenial subject, together with my knowledge of architectural terms, the theory of strains, and the prices of materials in the States, formed a strong bond of union between what might have been otherwise an ill-assorted pair, and led my grandfather to pronounce me, with emphasis, "a real intalligent kind of a chield." Thus a second time, as you will presently see, the capitol of my native State had influentially affected the ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... to put specimens into those jars," he said, pointing to a row of capped glass jars of assorted sizes on a wall rack behind the table. "After they're capped, the jars go onto that carrier beside the table. From here they pass through a decontamination chamber and into the remote-control laboratory ...
— Pandemic • Jesse Franklin Bone


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