| NOUN | group | assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley | a collection containing a variety of sorts of things |
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| act | assortment, categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation | the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type |
| Sounds | ahsao'rtmahnt | |
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| Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... | |
| Meaning | A collection containing a variety of sorts of things. | |
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| Example | "a great assortment of cars was on display" | |
| Synonyms | mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley | |
| Narrower | alphabet soup | A confusing / confusing assortment |
| grab bag | An assortment of miscellaneous items | |
| odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum | A motley assortment of things | |
| range | A variety of different things or activities | |
| sampler | An assortment of various samples | |
| selection | An assortment of things from which a choice can be made | |
| witches' brew, witches' broth, witch's brew | A fearsome mixture | |
| Broader | collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage | Several things grouped together or considered as a whole |
| Spanish | mezcla, miscelánea, surtido, variedad | |
| Catalan | assortiment, miscel·lània, varietat | |
| Meaning | The act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type. | |
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| Synonyms | categorization, categorisation, classification, compartmentalization, compartmentalisation | |
| Narrower | 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 / category) | |
| relegation | The act of assigning (someone or something) to a particular class or category / category | |
| stratification | The act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata | |
| taxonomy | practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships | |
| typology | classification according to general type | |
| Broader | grouping | The activity of putting things together in groups |
| Spanish | categorización, clasificación | |
| Catalan | categorització, classificació | |
| Verbs | assort | arrange or order by classes or categories / categories |
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