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Assign   /əsˈaɪn/   Listen
Assign

verb
(past & past part. assigned; pres. part. assigning)
1.
Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person).  Synonyms: delegate, depute, designate.
2.
Give out.  Synonyms: allot, portion.
3.
Attribute or credit to.  Synonyms: ascribe, attribute, impute.  "People impute great cleverness to cats"
4.
Select something or someone for a specific purpose.  Synonyms: set apart, specify.
5.
Attribute or give.  Synonym: put.  "He put all his efforts into this job" , "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story"
6.
Make undue claims to having.  Synonym: arrogate.
7.
Transfer one's right to.
8.
Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme.  Synonym: attribute.



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... the country, and to all the local commerce thereof, and therefore unqualified for the management of such a concern; and that the said Sulivan, instead of executing the contract himself, did, shortly after obtaining the same, assign it over to John Benn and others, and in consideration of such assignment did receive from the said Benn a great ...
— The Works Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IX. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... is confirmed by the great mass of descriptive literature that has sprung almost necessarily from the task of delineating such a multitude of formations before trying to interpret their modes of origin or to assign them their places in the history of the earth. The descriptive details are the indispensable data of a sound history, and they have in addition specific values independent of their service as historical ...
— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper

... to make the oratorical fervor which persuades himself while it lasts into the abiding conviction of his hearers. That very persuasion of his that the soul could remain pure while the life was corrupt, is not unexampled among men who have left holier names than he. His "Confessions," also, would assign him to that class with whom the religious sentiment is strong, and the moral nature weak. They are apt to believe that they may, as special pleaders say, confess and avoid. Hawthorne has admirably illustrated this in the penance ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell

... the one that can show him the best coverts," he boasted. "His Grace did well to assign ...
— Millennium • Everett B. Cole

... for stories; and phases of the literature work may well be used in the development of students' themes. Change the type of character and place, reconstruct the plot, or require a different ending for the story, leaving the plot virtually as it is, and then assign to the class. Boys and girls should invariably be taught to see stories in the life about them, in the newspapers and magazines on their library tables, and in the masterpieces they study in their ...
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