ASSORTING

Definition: ASSORTING

ASSORTING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Assort

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ASSORTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)

Crosswords: ASSORTING

Preparing fur-seal-skins for shipment Fig. 1. Interior of salt-house, Saint Paul's Island Natives salting and assorting the pelts Fig. 2. The flensed carcass of a fur-seal and the skin taken therefrom Fig. 3. A bundle of skins ready for shipment. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

U. S. Army Hospital, Justice Hospital Group, Toul, France. : Triage - assorting patients tents. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

New method of assorting the mail, as practised by Southern slave-holders, or attack on the Post Office, Charleston, S.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Assorting the mail, railway postal service. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bronzed colored maidens assorting coffee, Nicaragua, C.A. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Chinese 

分类 (Assort, Assorted, Assortment, categorise, categorised, Categorize, categorized, Classification, Classified, Classify, Classifying). (various references)

German

sortierend (grading, sorting). (various references)

Korean 

분류 (Classification, Classifying, Classing, sorting). (various references)

Pig Latin

assortingay

Romanian

asortare. (various references)

Ukrainian

сортувальний. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "ASSORTING": reassorting. (additional references)

Misspellings

"ASSORTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: absorting, Asotin, assarting, Sabortini. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: organists.

-1 letter: agonists, arsonist, assignor, gastrins, organist, ringtoss, roasting, signoras, soarings.

-2 letters: agonist, aorists, aristos, aroints, gastrin, gitanos, gratins, grisons, instars, orating, origans, ratings, rations, santirs, sarongs, satoris, signora, signors, soaring, sorings, sorting, staring, stingos, storing, strains, strings, tossing, trigons.

-3 letters: agists, angsts, aorist, argons, argots, aristo, aroint, arsino, arsons, assign, assort, gainst, gators, giants.

+2 letters: agronomists, designators, instigators, nasogastric, organicists, ostracising, reassorting, signatories, transposing.

+3 letters: gastronomies, gastronomist, ignorantness, nitrogenases, overcastings, prognathisms, protagonists, regionalists, resignations, segregations, subrogations.

+4 letters: antiestrogens, atherogenesis, cosignatories, crosshatching, gastrocnemius, gastronomists, gastrulations, grandiosities, introgressant, investigators, mineralogists, organisations, overasserting, propagandists, registrations, sharpshooting, somersaulting, sportscasting, stenographies, teratogenesis, transgression, trapshootings, urbanologists.

+5 letters: antiaggression, apostrophising, brainstormings, desegregations, deuteragonists, disintegrators, gratuitousness, ignorantnesses, introgressants, mastigophorans, narratologists, narrowcastings, prognosticates, prostaglandins, resegregations, segregationist, serodiagnostic, sharpshootings, skateboardings, sportscastings, strangulations, subgenerations, subirrigations, transgressions, transmigrators, transmogrifies.