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assign - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To select for a duty or office; appoint: synonym: appoint.
- transitive verb To set apart for a particular purpose or place in a particular category; designate: synonym: allocate.
- transitive verb To give out as a task; allot.
- transitive verb To ascribe; attribute: synonym: attribute.
- transitive verb To match or pair with.
- transitive verb Law To transfer (property, rights, or interests) from one to another.
- noun An assignee.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To set apart; make over by distribution or appropriation; apportion; allot.
- To point out; show; designate; specify.
- To give, furnish, or specify: as, to
assign a reason for anything. - To appoint; select for a duty or office: as, the officer assigned to the charge of a military department.
- To ascribe; attribute; refer.
- In law: To transfer or make over to another the right one has in any object, as in an estate, chose in action, or reversion, especially in trust for the security of creditors: rarely applied to testamentary transfers. To show or set forth with particularity: as, to
assign error in a writ; to assign false judgment, To point out or substantiate as a charge: as, perjury cannot be assigned on an oath taken without the jurisdiction of the officer administering it. - Adduce, Allege, etc. (see
adduce ); to determine, give, name, present. - noun A person to whom the property or interest of another is or may be transferred: as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
- noun [Assign is a broader word than assignee. The assignees of a person are usually understood to mean those who take immediately from him, by his assignment; the assigns of a person include all who acquire title under his transfer, immediately or remotely.]
- noun A thing pertaining to something else; an appurtenance; an appendage.
- noun Assignment; appointment.
- noun Design; purpose; object.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb (Law) To transfer or pass over property to another, whether for the benefit of the assignee or of the assignor's creditors, or in furtherance of some trust.
- transitive verb To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
- transitive verb To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly
- transitive verb (Law) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called
assignees , for the benefit of creditors. - transitive verb to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate.
- noun obsolete A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
- noun (Law) A person to whom property or an interest is transferred.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
designate or set apart something for somepurpose . - verb transitive To
appoint orselect someone for someoffice . - verb transitive To
allot or give something as atask . - verb transitive To
attribute orsort something intocategories . - verb transitive (law) To
transfer property , a legal right, etc., from one person to another. - noun An
assignee .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb transfer one's right to
- verb attribute or give
- verb select something or someone for a specific purpose
- verb decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
- verb make undue claims to having
- verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- verb give out
- verb attribute or credit to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English assignen, from Old French assigner, from Latin assignāre : ad-, ad- + signāre, to mark (from signum, sign; see sekw- in Indo-European roots).]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Old French assigner
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Examples
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But we had been all over which sanatorium any day for years during a time, as good as for dual years had been a Physician in assign of a Emergency Room, myself.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia admin 2009
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The assign is a ultimate in a legal conflict in between New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as well as fume shops upon a Poospatuck Indian Reservation over a sale of millions of dollars in untaxed cigarettes.
Indian reservation cigarettes under fire in NY - Las Vegas Now admin 2009
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But we had been all over which sanatorium any day for years during a time, as good as for dual years had been a Physician in assign of a Emergency Room, myself.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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The assign is a ultimate in a legal conflict in between New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as well as fume shops upon a Poospatuck Indian Reservation over a sale of millions of dollars in untaxed cigarettes.
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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In the absence of a candidate for a designer (and even Behe admits that design requires a designer) then the only probability I can be assign is zero.
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In the absence of a candidate for a designer (and even Behe admits that design requires a designer) then the only probability I can be assign is zero.
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Therefore, when a minister utters a word, the ruler should according to the word assign him a task to accomplish, and according to the result of the accomplishment call the task3 to account.
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The universal nature (e.g. war always evil, bad) you assign is certainly not how 1940s Britain and France would’ve perceived war … there are wars fought for principles greater than the, admittedly, great principal of “preservation of life” … as a European, I think you’d understand this distinction.
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Perhaps I'm giving up too easily but I want to assign a word to this.
May 2006 2006
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Perhaps I'm giving up too easily but I want to assign a word to this.
Related Words
synonyms (191)
Words with the same meaning
- abalienate
- accredit
- adjudge
- alien
- alienate
- allocate
- allot
- allow
- amortize
- apply
- appoint
- apportion
- appropriate
- appropriate to
- appurtenance
- ascribe
- assign to
- associate
- attach
- attribute
- authorize
- barter
- bequeath
- carry over
- cede
- charge
- charter
- choose
- classify
- collocate
- commend
- commission
- commit
- communicate
- confer
- confide
- consign
- convey
- credit
- decide
- deed
- deed over
- define
- delegate
- deliver
- demise
- denominate
- deploy
- deport
- depute
- deputize
- designate
- destine
- detach
- detail
- determine
- devolute
- devolve
- devolve upon
- diffuse
- dispose
- disseminate
- distribute
- earmark
- emplace
- empower
- enfeoff
- entrust
- establish
- exchange
- expel
- export
- extradite
- fate
- fix
- get a fix
- give
- give homework
- give in charge
- give in trust
- give out
- give title to
- grant
- hand
- hand down
- hand forward
- hand on
- hand over
- home in on
- impart
- import
- impute
- indicate
- infeudate
- install
- lay
- lay down
- license
- link
- localize
- locate
- lot
- make a syllabus
- make an assignment
- make assignments
- make over
- mark
- mark off
- mark out for
- mention
- metastasize
- metathesize
- mete out
- mission
- name
- navigate
- negotiate
- nominate
- ordain
- order
- ordinate
- pass
- pass on
- pass over
- pass the buck
- perfuse
- pick out
- pigeonhole
- pin down
- pinpoint
- place
- point out
- portion off
- position
- post
- prescribe
- put
- put down
- put in place
- refer
- relate
- relay
- relegate
- remand
- remise
- remit
- reserve
- restrict
- restrict to
- schedule
- second
- select
- sell
- send out
- set
- set a task
- set apart
- set aside
- set hurdles
- set off
- settle
- settle on
- sign away
- sign over
- signify
- situate
- specialize
- specify
- spot
- spread
- state
- stipulate
- surrender
- switch
- tab
- tag
- trade
- transfer
- transfer property
- transfuse
- translate
- translocate
- transmit
- transplace
- transplant
- transpose
- triangulate
- trust
- turn over
- warrant
- zero in on
same context (16)
Words that are found in similar contexts
forms (6)
Forms
cross-references (2)
Cross-references
rhymes (78)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Aline
- Cline
- Combine
- Dine
- Heine
- Jain
- Klein
- Kline
- Quine
- Rhine
- Stein
- Strine
- Tyne
- affine
- align
- aline
- benign
- brine
- cline
- combine
- confine
- consign
- decline
- define
- design
- dine
- disincline
- divine
- ein
- enshrine
- entwine
- fein
- fine
- gyn
- hine
- incline
- intertwine
- line
- lyne
- malign
- mine
- nine
- opine
- pine
- prine
- pyne
- quine
- realign
- reassign
- recline
- recombine
- redefine
- redesign
- refine
- resign
- rhein
- rhyne
- rine
- sein
- shine
- shrine
- shyne
- sign
- sine
- spine
- stein
- stine
- supine
- swine
- thein
- thine
- tine
- trine
- twine
- vine
- whine
- wine
- zine
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