Dictionary Definition
assign
Verb
1 give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or
assign a task to (a person) [syn: delegate, designate, depute]
3 attribute or credit to; "We attributed this
quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
[syn: impute, ascribe, attribute]
4 select something or someone for a specific
purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the
exercise" [syn: specify,
set
apart]
5 attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis
on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job";
"The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the
story" [syn: put]
6 make undue claims to having [syn: arrogate]
7 transfer one's right to
8 decide as to where something belongs in a
scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"
[syn: attribute]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -aɪn
Verb
Derived terms
Translations
to designate or set apart something for some
purpose
- Finnish: valita, määrätä, nimittää
- Italian: assegnare, accantonare
- Spanish: asignar
to appoint or select someone for some office
to allot or give something as a task
to attribute or sort something into categories
- Italian: categorizzare, attribuire
to transfer property, a legal right, etc., from
one peson to another
- Finnish: siirtää, luovuttaa
- Italian: assegnare, attribuire
Noun
- An assignee.
Extensive Definition
Assignment may refer to:
- Assignment (computer science), modification of the value of a variable in a computer program
- Assignment (education) and extra work assigned to be completed by the assignee at home (see also coursework)
- Assignment (law), transfer of rights or property from one person or entity to another
- Assignment (mathematical logic), auxiliary notion
- Assignment problem, finding a maximum weight matching in a weighted bipartite graph
- The Assignment, 1997 film directed by Christian Duguay and starring Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, and Ben Kingsley
- "The Assignment" (DS9 episode), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abalienate, accredit, alien, alienate, allocate, allot, allow, amortize, apply, appoint, apportion, appropriate, appropriate to,
ascribe, assign to,
associate, attach, attribute, authorize, barter, bequeath, carry over, cede, charge, charter, choose, classify, collocate, commend, commission, commit, communicate, confer, confide, consign, convey, credit, decide, deed, deed over, define, delegate, deliver, demise, denominate, deploy, deport, depute, deputize, designate, destine, detach, detail, determine, devolute, devolve, devolve upon, diffuse, dispose, disseminate, distribute, earmark, emplace, empower, enfeoff, entrust, establish, exchange, expel, export, extradite, fate, fix, get a fix, give, give homework, give in
charge, give in trust, give out, give title to, grant, hand, hand down, hand forward, hand
on, hand over, home in on, impart, import, impute, indicate, infeudate, install, lay, lay down, license, link, localize, locate, lot, make a syllabus, make an
assignment, make assignments, make over, mark, mark off, mark out for,
mention, metastasize, metathesize, mete out,
mission, name, navigate, negotiate, nominate, ordain, order, ordinate, pass, pass on, pass over, pass the
buck, perfuse, pick out,
pigeonhole, pin down,
pinpoint, place, point out, portion off,
position, post, prescribe, put, put down, put in place,
refer, relate, relay, relegate, remand, remise, remit, reserve, restrict, restrict to, schedule, second, select, sell, send out, set, set a task, set apart, set
aside, set hurdles, set off, settle, settle on, sign away,
sign over, signify,
situate, specialize, specify, spot, spread, state, stipulate, surrender, switch, tab, tag, trade, transfer, transfer property,
transfuse, translate, translocate, transmit, transplace, transplant, transpose, triangulate, trust, turn over, warrant, zero in
on