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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Examples
- It is still difficult to assign the honour of priority in the use of the simple expedient of printing for multiplying books. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Not in one case out of a hundred can we pretend to assign any reason why this or that part has varied. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Can you assign any cause for the nervous suffering, and your want of sleep? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I say, why do you assign Adele to me for a companion? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In spite of this he asked the War Department to assign Granger to the command of a corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Yes, Socrates, said Glaucon, and the whole of life is the only limit which wise men assign to the hearing of such discourses. Plato. The Republic.
- 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. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The education which was assigned to the men was music and gymnastic. Plato. The Republic.
- I have observed in books written by men, that period assigned as the farthest to which a husband's ardour extends. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You may give up your purpose; but mine is assigned to me by heaven, and I dare not. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He was assigned to duty, however, by the President, with the rank which his brevet gave him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- 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. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The position assigned to it was within about one degree of its actual place. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Yes, but I can't dismiss him in an instant without assigning reasons, my dear Chettam. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They admit variation as a vera causa in one case, they arbitrarily reject it in another, without assigning any distinction in the two cases. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He issued an order relieving Warren and assigning Griffin to the command of the 5th corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He then infers certain prospective movements, thus assigning meaning to the bare facts of the given situation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The giving of problems, the putting of questions, the assigning of tasks, the magnifying of difficulties, is a large part of school work. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- 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. Plato. The Republic.
- 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? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- What joy they take in the toils she assigns! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- 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. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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