Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To select for a duty or office; appoint: synonym: appoint.
- transitive verb To set apart for a particular purpose or place in a particular category; designate: synonym: allocate.
- transitive verb To give out as a task; allot.
- transitive verb To ascribe; attribute: synonym: attribute.
- transitive verb To match or pair with.
- transitive verb Law To transfer (property, rights, or interests) from one to another.
- noun An assignee.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Assignment; appointment.
- noun Design; purpose; object.
- noun A person to whom the property or interest of another is or may be transferred: as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
- noun [Assign is a broader word than assignee. The assignees of a person are usually understood to mean those who take immediately from him, by his assignment; the assigns of a person include all who acquire title under his transfer, immediately or remotely.]
- noun A thing pertaining to something else; an appurtenance; an appendage.
- To set apart; make over by distribution or appropriation; apportion; allot.
- To point out; show; designate; specify.
- To give, furnish, or specify: as, to
assign a reason for anything. - To appoint; select for a duty or office: as, the officer assigned to the charge of a military department.
- To ascribe; attribute; refer.
- In law: To transfer or make over to another the right one has in any object, as in an estate, chose in action, or reversion, especially in trust for the security of creditors: rarely applied to testamentary transfers. To show or set forth with particularity: as, to
assign error in a writ; to assign false judgment, To point out or substantiate as a charge: as, perjury cannot be assigned on an oath taken without the jurisdiction of the officer administering it. - Adduce, Allege, etc. (see
adduce ); to determine, give, name, present.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb (Law) 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.
- transitive verb To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
- transitive verb To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly
- transitive verb (Law) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called
assignees , for the benefit of creditors. - transitive verb to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate.
- noun obsolete A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
- noun (Law) A person to whom property or an interest is transferred.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
designate or set apart something for somepurpose . - verb transitive To
appoint orselect someone for someoffice . - verb transitive To
allot or give something as atask . - verb transitive To
attribute orsort something intocategories . - verb transitive (law) To
transfer property , a legal right, etc., from one person to another. - noun An
assignee .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb transfer one's right to
- verb attribute or give
- verb select something or someone for a specific purpose
- verb decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
- verb make undue claims to having
- verb give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- verb give out
- verb attribute or credit to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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But we had been all over which sanatorium any day for years during a time, as good as for dual years had been a Physician in assign of a Emergency Room, myself.
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The assign is a ultimate in a legal conflict in between New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as well as fume shops upon a Poospatuck Indian Reservation over a sale of millions of dollars in untaxed cigarettes.
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But we had been all over which sanatorium any day for years during a time, as good as for dual years had been a Physician in assign of a Emergency Room, myself.
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The assign is a ultimate in a legal conflict in between New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as well as fume shops upon a Poospatuck Indian Reservation over a sale of millions of dollars in untaxed cigarettes.
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In the absence of a candidate for a designer (and even Behe admits that design requires a designer) then the only probability I can be assign is zero.
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In the absence of a candidate for a designer (and even Behe admits that design requires a designer) then the only probability I can be assign is zero.
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Therefore, when a minister utters a word, the ruler should according to the word assign him a task to accomplish, and according to the result of the accomplishment call the task3 to account.
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The universal nature (e.g. war always evil, bad) you assign is certainly not how 1940s Britain and France would’ve perceived war … there are wars fought for principles greater than the, admittedly, great principal of “preservation of life” … as a European, I think you’d understand this distinction.
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Perhaps I'm giving up too easily but I want to assign a word to this.
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Perhaps I'm giving up too easily but I want to assign a word to this.
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