Select vs Assort - What's the difference?
select | assort |
Privileged, specially selected.
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* (1800-1859)
*:A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Of high quality; top-notch.
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To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
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.
As an adjective select
is select.As a verb assort is
to sort or arrange according to characteristic or class.select
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(en verb)- He looked over the menu, and selected the roast beef.
- The program computes all the students' grades, then selects a random sample for human verification.
Synonyms
* (to choose) choose, optAnagrams
*assort
English
Verb
(en verb)- They appear no ways assorted to those with whom they must associate.
- to assort a cargo