Assort vs Contend - What's the difference?
assort | contend |
To sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.
* Burke
To be of a kind with.
To be associated with; to consort with.
To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods.
to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
* Bible, Deuteronomy ii. 9
* Shakespeare
to struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
* Dryden
to strive in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
* John Locke
* Dr H. More
As verbs the difference between assort and contend
is that assort is to sort or arrange according to characteristic or class while contend is to strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.assort
English
Verb
(en verb)- They appear no ways assorted to those with whom they must associate.
- to assort a cargo
Derived terms
* assortativeAnagrams
* * ----contend
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)- The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
- For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.
- You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.
- The question which our author would contend for.
- Many things he fiercely contended about were trivial.