Assignverb
(transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
âto assign a day for trialâ;
Conveyverb
To move (something) from one place to another.
âAir conveys sound. Water is conveyed through the pipe.â;
Assignverb
(transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
âto assign counsel for a prisonerâ;
Conveyverb
(dated) To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.
Assignverb
(transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
Conveyverb
To communicate; to make known; to portray.
âto convey an impression; to convey informationâ;
Assignverb
(transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
Conveyverb
(legal) To transfer legal rights (to).
âHe conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.â;
Assignverb
To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
Conveyverb
(obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
Assignverb
To give (a value) to a variable.
âWe assign 100 to x.â;
Conveyverb
(obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
Assignnoun
An assignee.
Conveyverb
To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.
âI will convey them by sea in floats.â; âConvey me to my bed, then to my grave.â;
Assignnoun
(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
Conveyverb
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.
Assignnoun
(obsolete) An assignment or appointment.
Conveyverb
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.
âThe Earl of Desmond . . . secretly conveyed all his lands to feoffees in trust.â;
Assignnoun
(obsolete) A design or purpose.
Conveyverb
To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information.
âMen fill one another's heads with noise and sound, but convey not thereby their thoughts.â;
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;
Conveyverb
To manage with privacy; to carry out.
âI . . . will convey the business as I shall find means.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;
Conveyverb
To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
Assignverb
To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
Conveyverb
To accompany; to convoy.
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.
Conveyverb
To play the thief; to steal.
âBut as I am Crack, I will convey, crossbite, and cheat upon Simplicius.â;
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;
Conveyverb
make known; pass on, of information
Assignnoun
A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
Conveyverb
serve as a means for expressing something;
âThe painting of Mary carries motherly loveâ; âHis voice carried a lot af angerâ;
Assignverb
give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
Conveyverb
transfer to another;
âcommunicate a diseaseâ;
Assignverb
give out or allot;
âWe were assigned new uniformsâ;
Conveyverb
transmit a title or property
Assignverb
attribute or credit to;
âWe attributed this quotation to Shakespeareâ; âPeople impute great cleverness to catsâ;
Conveyverb
transmit or serve as the medium for transmission;
âSound carries well over waterâ; âThe airwaves carry the soundâ; âMany metals conduct heatâ;
Assignverb
select something or someone for a specific purpose;
âThe teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exerciseâ;
Conveyverb
take something or somebody with oneself somewhere;
âBring me the box from the other roomâ; âTake these letters to the bossâ; âThis brings me to the main pointâ;
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;
Conveyverb
go or come after and bring or take back;
âGet me those books over there, pleaseâ; âCould you bring the wine?â; âThe dog fetched the hatâ;
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;