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
- Did the class read the assignment
- They denied the assignment to the Police.
- The assignment is intellectual dishonesty.
- The designation was assigned in the 1960s.
- The assignment was alloted to the students.
- He was assigned to the crew of the frigate.
- That was the purpose of the above assignment.
- The boss assigned many tasks for the employees.
- But the timing of the assignment was remarkable.
- To whom shall Jupiter assign the task of expiating our wickedness
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