Assignverb
(transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
âto assign a day for trialâ;
Asign
Misspelling of assign.
Assignverb
(transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
âto assign counsel for a prisonerâ;
Assignverb
(transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
Assignverb
(transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
Assignverb
To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
Assignverb
To give (a value) to a variable.
âWe assign 100 to x.â;
Assignnoun
An assignee.
Assignnoun
(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
Assignnoun
(obsolete) An assignment or appointment.
Assignnoun
(obsolete) A design or purpose.
Assignverb
To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
âIn the order I assign to them.â; âThe man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.â; âHe assigned to his men their several posts.â;
Assignverb
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.
âAll as the dwarf the way to her assigned.â; âIt is not easy to assign a period more eventful.â;
Assignverb
To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
Assignverb
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.
Assignnoun
A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
âSix French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so.â;
Assignnoun
A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
Assignverb
give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
Assignverb
give out or allot;
âWe were assigned new uniformsâ;
Assignverb
attribute or credit to;
âWe attributed this quotation to Shakespeareâ; âPeople impute great cleverness to catsâ;
Assignverb
select something or someone for a specific purpose;
âThe teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exerciseâ;
Assignverb
attribute or give;
âShe put too much emphasis on her the last statementâ; âHe put all his efforts into this jobâ; âThe teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the storyâ;
Assignverb
make undue claims to having
Assignverb
transfer one's right to
Assignverb
decide as to where something belongs in a scheme;
âThe biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper classâ;