Assigning
[ə'sainɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assign
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Examples
- 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.
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