assign

Plural: assigns

Verb

Verb Forms: assigned, assigning, assigns

• To allocate a job or duty; to designate something for a purpose.
• give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
• give out
  • "We were assigned new uniforms"
• attribute or credit to
• select something or someone for a specific purpose
  • "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
• attribute or give
• make undue claims to having
• transfer one's right to
• decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
  • "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"
• To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
• To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
• To allot or give (something) as a task.
• To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
• To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
• To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.
• To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
• To give (a value) to a variable.

Noun

• An assignee.
• A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
• An assignment or appointment.
• A design or purpose.

Examples

• The game will assign you new letters after you play your word.
• to assign a day for trial
• to assign counsel for a prisoner
• We assign 100 to x.

Synonyms

allot, arrogate, ascribe, attribute, delegate, depute, designate, impute, portion, put, set apart, specify, allocate, consign, convey, earmark, transfer

Anagrams of assign