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Corollary vs Assort - What's the difference?

corollary | assort |

As a noun corollary

is something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.

As a verb assort is

to sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.

corollary

English

Noun

(corollaries)
  • Something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.
  • Something which occurs a fortiori , as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.
  • Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefont.
  • (mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the proof of another proposition.
  • We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary , we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.

    assort

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.
  • * Burke
  • They appear no ways assorted to those with whom they must associate.
  • 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 assort a cargo

    Derived terms

    * assortative

    Anagrams

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