(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.
Consort
Definition:
(n.) One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.
(n.) An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination.
(n.) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
(v. i.) To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with.
(v. t.) To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate.
(v. t.) To attend; to accompany.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fructosamine concentration also remained high in consort with increased blood glucose concentration in cats with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus over extended periods.
(2) Other reactions include consort dermatitis and reactions to toothpastes, gum and perfumes in paper products, sanitary napkins, ostomy pastes, and detergents.
(3) These results suggest that these cytokines may function in consort as regulators of cellular growth and function in normal tissues.
(4) The INCA program converts Consort 30-generated fluorescence list mode data collected from Indo-1-stained cells to absolute intracellular calcium concentrations (nM Ca2+i).
(5) Unity state’s acting governor, Stephen Taker, and his consorts laughed off questions about whether government and allied forces had abducted women.
(6) The three companies work together as Consort Healthcare, with other projects including Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospital and Hope Hospital, Salford .
(7) When routine patch testing reveals a positive reaction, the dermatologist should consider exposure to the antigen not only in the patient but also through contact with the patient's consort.
(8) At the same age as Kaminski was consorting with fascist skinheads, I was a member of the Young Conservatives .
(9) Since then, he has been travelling across Russia and the former Soviet republics in what at times appears to be a concerted effort to consort with the region's least savoury politicians.
(10) The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was employed to detect human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 and 18 in cytological samples from the uterine cervix and in urine samples from the male consorts.
(11) The sexual consorts of confirmed and suspected STD patients must be promptly evaluated and treated of disease spread is to be curtailed.
(12) "The emphasis so far in Qatar has been on literacy, and our second challenge is how to move from literacy to literature to create a culture," said Abdel-Rahman Azzam, a spokesman for Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, the emir's consort and the chair of the Qatar Foundation.
(13) In all but seven instances, the gonococci isolated from different sites of the same patient, or from a consort, had the same nutritional requirements and penicillin MIC.
(14) The executive offices overlook a construction site: the trust is part-way through a reconstruction project, funded by a £200m private finance initiative deal with Balfour Beatty and Consort Healthcare.
(15) And, if one is not at the zenith of adulation of the Pacific islanders who believe the Prince to be the penis-gourd-sporting Melanesian Messiah, then, at the very least, the example of Britain's longest-serving monarchal consort is deserving of our – and, more specifically, the Duchess of Cambridge's – interest.
(16) In 18 male consorts of females with positive cultures, asymptomatic bacteriospermia was found.
(17) In mice, only strange male pheromones block pregnancy; pheromones of the familiar male with which the female has mated have the capacity to block pregnancy but are ineffective with the consort female.
(18) Of 98 male patients with non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) who had regular female consorts who received concurrent epidemiological treatment, NGU recurred in four (16%) men whose treated partners were initially chlamydia positive and 20 (27%) men whose treated partners were initially chlamydia negative.
(19) He became known as "Wally" after Wallis Simpson, consort of the abdicated Edward VIII and subsequent Duchess of Windsor.
(20) In most cases the role of a partner is performed by the consort (26.9%) or by a son or daughter (19.3%).