assign
IPA: ʌsˈaɪn
noun
- An assignee.
- (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
- (obsolete) An assignment or appointment.
- (obsolete) A design or purpose.
verb
- (transitive) To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
- (transitive) To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
- (transitive) To allot or give (something) as a task.
- (transitive) To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
- (LGBT) To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.
- (transitive, law) To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
- (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
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Examples of "assign" in Sentences
- Perhaps I'm giving up too easily but I want to assign a word to this.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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