/ʌsɔˈɹtmʌnt/ - [usortmunt] - as•sort•ment
We found 8 definitions of assortment from 5 different sources.
NounPlural: assortments |
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assortment - a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions" | ||
mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley | ||
aggregation, accumulation, assemblage, collection the act of accumulating | ||
grab bag a container from which a person draws a wrapped item at random without knowing the contents | ||
witch's brew, witches' brew, witches' broth a fearsome mixture; "a witches' brew of gangsters and terrorists"; "mixing dope and alcohol creates a witches' brew" | ||
range a place for shooting (firing or driving) projectiles of various kinds; "the army maintains a missile range in the desert"; "any good golf club will have a range where you can practice" | ||
selection an assortment of things from which a choice can be made; "the store carried a large selection of shoes" | ||
farrago, omnium-gatherum, odds and ends, oddments, mishmash, mingle-mangle, melange, gallimaufry, hotchpotch, hodgepodge, ragbag a motley assortment of things | ||
alphabet soup soup that contains small noodles in the shape of letters of the alphabet | ||
assortment - the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | ||
categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation | ||
grouping the activity of putting things together in groups | ||
indexing the act of classifying and providing an index in order to make items easier to retrieve | ||
reclassification classifying something again (usually in a new category) | ||
relegation mild banishment; consignment to an inferior position; "he has been relegated to a post in Siberia" | ||
stratification the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination | ||
taxonomy practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships |