assort
31sort — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. class, kind, variety, group, category, description. v. t. segregate, separate, isolate; size, grade, group, match; assort, arrange, classify; sift, screen. See arrangement. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn.… …
32sort — {{11}}sort (n.) late 14c., from O.Fr. sorte class, kind, from L. sortem (nom. sors) lot, fate, share, portion, rank, category, from PIE root *ser to line up (Cf. L. serere to arrange, attach, join; see SERIES (Cf. series)). The sense evolution in …
33sort — sortable, adj. sortably, adv. sorter, n. /sawrt/, n. 1. a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort. 2.… …
34group — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. assemblage, company, association; clique, set; collection, cluster, company. v. collect, gather, classify, sort, combine, cluster. See arrangement. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. family, kindred, tribal …
35classify — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. arrange, order, pigeonhole, tabulate, organize, distribute, categorize, systematize, assort, sort, coordinate, correlate, incorporate, codify, collocate, label, alphabetize, place in a category, file, range, form into… …
36Arrangement — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Reduction to Order. < N PARAG:Arrangement >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 arrangement arrangement Sgm: N 1 plan plan &c. 626 Sgm: N 1 preparation preparation &c. 673 Sgm: N 1 disposal disposal disposition …
37sort — [14] Latin sors originally denoted a ‘piece of wood used for drawing lots’ (it is the source of English sorcerer). It later developed metaphorically into ‘that which is allotted to one by fate’, and hence one’s ‘fortune’ or ‘condition’, and by… …
38assorted — (adj.) arranged in sorts, 1797, pp. adjective from ASSORT (Cf. assort) (v.) …
39assortment — 1610s, action of assorting, from ASSORT (Cf. assort) + MENT (Cf. ment). Sense of group of things of the same sort is attested from 1759; that of group of things whether the same sort or not from 1791 …
40sort — [14] Latin sors originally denoted a ‘piece of wood used for drawing lots’ (it is the source of English sorcerer). It later developed metaphorically into ‘that which is allotted to one by fate’, and hence one’s ‘fortune’ or ‘condition’, and by… …