Assign vs. Delegate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Assign and Delegate
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Assign
To select for a duty or office; appoint
Firefighters assigned to the city's industrial park.
Delegate
A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy or agent.
Assign
To set apart for a particular purpose or place in a particular category; designate
Assigned the new species to an existing genus.
Delegate
A representative to a conference or convention.
Assign
To give out as a task; allot
Assigned homework to the class.
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Delegate
A member of a House of Delegates, the lower house of the Maryland, Virginia, or West Virginia legislature.
Assign
To ascribe; attribute
Assigned blame for the loss to a lack of good defense.
Delegate
An elected or appointed representative of a US territory in the House of Representatives who is entitled to speak but not vote.
Assign
To match or pair with
Assign a value to each of the variables.
Delegate
To authorize and send (another person) as one's representative.
Assign
(Law) To transfer (property, rights, or interests) from one to another.
Delegate
To commit or entrust to another
Delegate a task to a subordinate.
Assign
An assignee.
Delegate
A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
Assign
(transitive) To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
To assign a day for trial
Delegate
A representative at a conference, etc.
Assign
(transitive) To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
To assign counsel for a prisoner
Delegate
(US) An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
Assign
(transitive) To allot or give (something) as a task.
Delegate
(computing) A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
Assign
(transitive) To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
Delegate
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Assign
(LGBT) To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.
Delegate
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Assign
To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
Delegate
To authorize someone to be a delegate
Assign
To give (a value) to a variable.
We assign 100 to x.
Delegate
To commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
Assign
An assignee.
Delegate
To give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own
Assign
(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
Delegate
Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.
Assign
(obsolete) An assignment or appointment.
Delegate
One elected by the people of a territory to represent them in Congress, where he has the right of debating, but not of voting.
Assign
(obsolete) A design or purpose.
Delegate
Sent to act for or represent another; deputed; as, a delegate judge.
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.
Delegate
To send as one's representative; to empower as an ambassador; to send with power to transact business; to commission; to depute; to authorize.
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.
Delegate
To intrust to the care or management of another; to transfer; to assign; to commit.
The delegated administration of the law.
Delegated executive power.
The power exercised by the legislature is the people's power, delegated by the people to the legislative.
Assign
To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
Delegate
A person appointed or elected to represent others
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.
Delegate
Transfer power to someone
Assign
A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so.
Delegate
Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
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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