assign

Speech parts

1. assign - Noun

2. assign - Verb

Meaning

To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.

To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.

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

A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

attribute designate delegate allocate ascribe earmark allot commission award set name place put give charge
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Antonyms

almighty give rumple break disorder adopt
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Hypernyms

use take judge charge claim deal

Hyponyms

regiment place allow project post reserve

Phrases with the word

assign fault to assign guilt to assign priority to assign priority assign liability assign responsibility

Derivatives

assigned assigning

Examples

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint Exupéry

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. Frances Wright

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? Charles Baudelaire

It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. Émile Durkheim

Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it. Terry Eagleton

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. Christian Nestell Bovee

Close letter words and terms

assiento assiette assig assign a limit assign a topic assign actions