(n.) The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.
(n.) A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing.
(v. t.) To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees.
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Assort
Definition:
(v. t.) To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods. [Rarely applied to persons.]
(v. t.) To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods; as, to assort a cargo.
(v. i.) To agree; to be in accordance; to be adapted; to suit; to fall into a class or place.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present investigation examines the assortative mating coefficients for scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) from five separate studies.
(2) In the 18 asymptomatic diamond assorters, electrophysiological studies revealed an ulnar neuropathy in two (again in the hand used for holding the eye-glass).
(3) In assortative mating systems modifiers favoring reduced assortment propensities tend to increase.
(4) On the other hand, in the "Ms" (as in other "panmixed" populations) positive assortative mating among hereditary-predisposed persons is a more significant factor influencing family transmission of EFP, since the correlation between probands and their spouses is rpp = 0.31 (p less than 0.001) in the "Ms", as compared to rpp = 0.19 (p less than 0.1) in the "Rs".
(5) The Price equation provides a natural framework within which to examine certain kinds of non-additive allelic effects, recombination and assortative mating.
(6) Assortative mating is not found and thus cannot explain this effect.
(7) Third, marital assortment was not of sufficient magnitude to account for these common environment effects.
(8) The owner of Biogenesis, the now-closed Florida anti-aging clinic , said in an interview with CBS TV show "60 Minutes" that the 38-year-old sportsman paid him $12,000 per month for an assortment of banned drugs including testosterone and human growth hormone.
(9) Assortative mating was present and environmental factors common to siblings did not make a significant contribution to the phenotypic variance.
(10) The plasma cortisol (PC) level at 08.00 a.m. was assessed in 250 unselected psychiatric inpatients suffering from various disorders, assorted in 8 diagnostic groups.
(11) The initial, intact cellular products of a fusion cross are prototrophic heterokaryons which frequently assort single parental nuclei into monokaryotic blastospores containing biparental cytoplasms.
(12) Linkage analysis using polymorphic restriction sites along the X chromosome in eight SS and one AA family localized the F-cell production (FCP) locus to Xp22.2, with a maximum lod score (logarithm of odds of linkage v independent assortment) of 4.6 at a recombination fraction of 0.04.
(13) Staff battled the rays with an assortment of big umbrellas and pot plants, before covering the entire 57-storey glass wall with non-reflective film – the likely solution in London.
(14) Inbreeding coefficient was estimated for Adyg population and its structure analysed: a random component contributes mostly to the inbreeding coefficient (Fst = 0.00991), non-random component of the inbreeding coefficient being Fis = 0.010009, which testifies to negative marital assortativity among Adygs.
(15) Subtle lighting gives a magical beauty to the assorted ruins below, the Colosseum looming in the background.
(16) Freeman was awarded an MBE in 1998 and over the years picked up an assortment of prestigious gongs for his radio work, including the Sony awards radio personality of the year in 1987, the Radio Academy's outstanding contribution to UK music radio award in 1988, and a special Sony award in May 2000 commemorating 40 years of service to broadcasting.
(17) A significant negative assortative mating pattern was found.
(18) With Robert Snodgrass having only 18 months remaining on his contract, the manager’s biggest battle looks certain to be a tug of war with the gifted Scotland winger’s assorted suitors.
(19) The significant assortative mating for the sensation-seeking motive in (married) American students reported by Farley and Davis was significantly cross validated on American (N = 160) and German (N = 160) samples randomly selected from two comparable cities in the Federal German Republic and the United States.
(20) The combined data show that there is very highly significant assortative mating, but only of intermediates.