assign

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.

   • to assign a day for trial
2. 2

   To appoint or select (someone) for some office.

   • to assign counsel for a prisoner
3. 3

   To allot or give (something) as a task.

   • He assigned his men to their several posts, talked boldly of maintaining himself against all the troops of Spain, and by his cheerful tone endeavoured to inspire a confidence in others which he was far from feeling himself.
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   1. 4

      To attribute or sort (something) into categories.

   2. 5

      To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.

   3. 6

      To give (a value) to a variable.

      • We assign 100 to x.
   4. 7

      An assignee.

   5. 8

      A thing relating or belonging to something else

      A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

      • The King ſir hath wagerd with him ſix Barbary horſes, againgſt the which hee has impaund as I take it ſix French Rapiers and Poynards, with their aſſignes, as girdle, hanger and ſo.
   6. 9

      An assignment or appointment.

   7. 10

      A design or purpose.

      • He aim’d at high designs, and so attain’d / The high assigns to which his spirit aim’d.

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• synonymearmark
• synonymset apart
• synonymconvey
• synonymtransfer