Ascribe vs. Assign — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ascribe and Assign
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Ascribe
Regard something as being due to (a cause)
He ascribed Jane's short temper to her upset stomach
Assign
To select for a duty or office; appoint
Firefighters assigned to the city's industrial park.
Ascribe
To regard as arising from a specified cause or source
"Other people ascribe his exclusion from the canon to an unsubtle form of racism" (Daniel Pinchbeck).
Assign
To set apart for a particular purpose or place in a particular category; designate
Assigned the new species to an existing genus.
Ascribe
To regard as belonging to or produced by a specified agent, place, or time
Ascribed the poem to Shakespeare.
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Assign
To give out as a task; allot
Assigned homework to the class.
Ascribe
(transitive) To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.
One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them.
Assign
To ascribe; attribute
Assigned blame for the loss to a lack of good defense.
Ascribe
(transitive) To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator.
It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.
Assign
To match or pair with
Assign a value to each of the variables.
Ascribe
To believe in or agree with; subscribe.
Assign
(Law) To transfer (property, rights, or interests) from one to another.
Ascribe
To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.
The finest [speech] that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem.
Assign
An assignee.
Ascribe
To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong.
More than good-will to me attribute naught.
Ascribes his gettings to his parts and merit.
And fairly quit him of the imputed blame.
Assign
(transitive) To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
To assign a day for trial
Ascribe
Attribute or credit to;
We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare
People impute great cleverness to cats
Assign
(transitive) To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
To assign counsel for a prisoner
Assign
(transitive) To allot or give (something) as a task.
Assign
(transitive) To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
Assign
(LGBT) To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.
Assign
To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
Assign
To give (a value) to a variable.
We assign 100 to x.
Assign
An assignee.
Assign
(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
Assign
(obsolete) An assignment or appointment.
Assign
(obsolete) A design or purpose.
Assign
To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
In the order I assign to them.
The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.
He assigned to his men their several posts.
Assign
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.
All as the dwarf the way to her assigned.
It is not easy to assign a period more eventful.
Assign
To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
Assign
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.
Assign
A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so.
Assign
A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
Assign
Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
Assign
Give out or allot;
We were assigned new uniforms
Assign
Attribute or credit to;
We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare
People impute great cleverness to cats
Assign
Select something or someone for a specific purpose;
The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise
Assign
Attribute or give;
She put too much emphasis on her the last statement
He put all his efforts into this job
The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story
Assign
Make undue claims to having
Assign
Transfer one's right to
Assign
Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme;
The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class
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