Assign

[ə'saɪn]

Definition

(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'.

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Definition

(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.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

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.

Typist: Morton

Synonyms and Antonyms

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

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Definition

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.

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