Assign
[ə'saɪn]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) select something or someone for a specific purpose; 'The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise'.
(verb.) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; 'The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class'.
(verb.) transfer one's right to.
(verb.) give out; 'We were assigned new uniforms'.
杰米整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
(v. t.) To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.
(v. t.) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
(v.) A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
(n.) A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
安德鲁手打
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Apportion, allot, appoint, appropriate, cast.[2]. Fix, specify, determine, designate.[3]. Adduce, allege, advance, offer, give, present, bring forward.[4]. (Law.) Transfer, convey, make over.
整理:莫顿
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Attribute, apportion, allege, refer, specify, consign, intrust, commit,point_out, allot_to, adduce, advance, appoint, convey
ANT:Withhold, withdraw, resume, retain, refuse, disconnect, dissociate
哈里特編輯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to sign or mark out to one: to allot: to appoint: to allege: to transfer: to ascribe or refer to: to suggest: to fix as a time: to point out exactly.—n. one to whom any property or right is made over: (pl.) appendages (Shak.).—adj. Assign′able that may be assigned.—ns. Assignā′tion an appointment to meet used chiefly of love-trysts and mostly in a bad sense: (Scots law) the making over of any right to another equivalent to Assignment; Assignee (as-sin-ē′) one to whom any right or property is assigned: (pl.) the trustees of a sequestrated estate; Assign′ment act of assigning: anything assigned: the writing by which a transfer is made: (Spens.) design.
整理:劳埃德
例句/造句/用法:
- It is still difficult to assign the honour of priority in the use of the simple expedient of printing for multiplying books. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Not in one case out of a hundred can we pretend to assign any reason why this or that part has varied. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Can you assign any cause for the nervous suffering, and your want of sleep? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I say, why do you assign Adele to me for a companion? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- In spite of this he asked the War Department to assign Granger to the command of a corps. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Yes, Socrates, said Glaucon, and the whole of life is the only limit which wise men assign to the hearing of such discourses. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Sheridan was telegraphed for that day, and on his arrival was assigned to the command of the cavalry corps with the Army of the Potomac. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The education which was assigned to the men was music and gymnastic. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- I have observed in books written by men, that period assigned as the farthest to which a husband's ardour extends. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- You may give up your purpose; but mine is assigned to me by heaven, and I dare not. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- He was assigned to duty, however, by the President, with the rank which his brevet gave him. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Fourdrinier to engage with them in bringing the machinery to perfection, and patents obtained in this country by Mr. Gamble were assigned to them in 1804. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The position assigned to it was within about one degree of its actual place. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Yes, but I can't dismiss him in an instant without assigning reasons, my dear Chettam. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- They admit variation as a vera causa in one case, they arbitrarily reject it in another, without assigning any distinction in the two cases. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- He issued an order relieving Warren and assigning Griffin to the command of the 5th corps. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He then infers certain prospective movements, thus assigning meaning to the bare facts of the given situation. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The giving of problems, the putting of questions, the assigning of tasks, the magnifying of difficulties, is a large part of school work. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- And thus the whole State will grow up in a noble order, and the several classes will receive the proportion of happiness which nature assigns to them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Lyell asks, and assigns certain reasons in answer, why have not seals and bats given birth on such islands to forms fitted to live on the land? 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- What joy they take in the toils she assigns! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- One accepts, for the most part, the studies of the existing course and then assigns values to them as a sufficient reason for their being taught. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
錄入:沃尔特