different between assort vs unsort
assort
English
Etymology
Middle French assortir
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??s??t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??s??t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Verb
assort (third-person singular simple present assorts, present participle assorting, simple past and past participle assorted)
- (transitive) To sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- They appear […] no way assorted to those with whom they must associate.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- (intransitive) To be of a kind with.
- (intransitive) To be associated with; to consort with.
- (transitive) To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods.
- to assort a cargo
Derived terms
- assortation
- assortative
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Astors, Astros, roasts, sortsa
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.s??/
Verb
assort
- third-person singular present indicative of assortir
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unsort
English
Etymology
un- +? sort, apparently by confusion of unravel, untangle or similar and sort.
Verb
unsort (third-person singular simple present unsorts, present participle unsorting, simple past and past participle unsorted)
- (transitive, nonstandard) To sort out; to resolve.
- 2003, Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, A Documentary History of Religion in America to 1877 (page 54)
- In his letter to Virginia's governor excerpted below, Rolfe tries to unsort the mixture of motives that led to his decision to marry Pocahantas.
- 2008, Susan McGeown, Call Me Elle (page 48)
- I try to unsort this big tangle of things that all of a sudden I've tripped over.
- 2003, Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, A Documentary History of Religion in America to 1877 (page 54)
- (computing) To shuffle a data structure so that it is no longer sorted.
Anagrams
- Ruston, tornus, tourns
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