Assign vs. Convey — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Assign and Convey
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Definitions
Assign➦
To select for a duty or office; appoint
Firefighters assigned to the city's industrial park.
Convey➦
To take or carry from one place to another; transport.
Assign➦
To set apart for a particular purpose or place in a particular category; designate
Assigned the new species to an existing genus.
Convey➦
To serve as a medium of transmission for; transmit
Wires that convey electricity.
Assign➦
To give out as a task; allot
Assigned homework to the class.
Convey➦
To communicate or make known; impart
"a look intended to convey sympathetic comprehension" (Saki).
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Assign➦
To ascribe; attribute
Assigned blame for the loss to a lack of good defense.
Convey➦
(Law) To transfer ownership of or title to.
Assign➦
To match or pair with
Assign a value to each of the variables.
Convey➦
(Archaic) To steal.
Assign➦
(Law) To transfer (property, rights, or interests) from one to another.
Convey➦
To move (something) from one place to another.
Air conveys sound. Water is conveyed through the pipe.
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Assign➦
An assignee.
Convey➦
(dated) To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.
Assign➦
(transitive) To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
To assign a day for trial
Convey➦
To communicate; to make known; to portray.
To convey an impression; to convey information
Assign➦
(transitive) To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
To assign counsel for a prisoner
Convey➦
(legal) To transfer legal rights (to).
He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.
Assign➦
(transitive) To allot or give (something) as a task.
Convey➦
(obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
Assign➦
(transitive) To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
Convey➦
(obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
Assign➦
(LGBT) To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.
Convey➦
To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.
I will convey them by sea in floats.
Convey me to my bed, then to my grave.
Assign➦
To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
Convey➦
To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.
Assign➦
To give (a value) to a variable.
We assign 100 to x.
Convey➦
To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing.
The Earl of Desmond . . . secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust.
Assign➦
An assignee.
Convey➦
To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information.
Men fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts.
Assign➦
(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
Convey➦
To manage with privacy; to carry out.
I . . . will convey the business as I shall find means.
Assign➦
(obsolete) An assignment or appointment.
Convey➦
To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
Assign➦
(obsolete) A design or purpose.
Convey➦
To accompany; to convoy.
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.
Convey➦
To play the thief; to steal.
But as I am Crack, I will convey, crossbite, and cheat upon Simplicius.
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.
Convey➦
Make known; pass on, of information
Assign➦
To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
Convey➦
Serve as a means for expressing something;
The painting of Mary carries motherly love
His voice carried a lot af anger
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.
Convey➦
Transfer to another;
Communicate a disease
Assign➦
A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so.
Convey➦
Transmit a title or property
Assign➦
A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
Convey➦
Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission;
Sound carries well over water
The airwaves carry the sound
Many metals conduct heat
Assign➦
Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
Convey➦
Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere;
Bring me the box from the other room
Take these letters to the boss
This brings me to the main point
Assign➦
Give out or allot;
We were assigned new uniforms
Convey➦
Go or come after and bring or take back;
Get me those books over there, please
Could you bring the wine?
The dog fetched the hat
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
