Assign (Verb)
Meaning 1
Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class".
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Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
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Meaning 2
Attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats".
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Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
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Meaning 3
Select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise".
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Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
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Meaning 4
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".
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Verbs of eating and drinking.
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- The critics assign too much importance to her past failures.
- She will assign all the blame to her partner for their business downfall.
- He tends to assign more value to his intuition than to logic and reason.
- The voters assign little weight to the candidate's promises.
- The reviewer will assign a high rating to the movie based on its originality.
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Meaning 6
Make undue claims to having.
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Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
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Meaning 7
Give out; "We were assigned new uniforms".
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Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
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Meaning 8
Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person).
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Verbs of political and social activities and events.
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- Devolve
- Cast
- Raise
- Task
- Mandate
- Delegate
- Promote
- Demote
- Transfer
- Advance
- Elevate
- Place
- Depute
- Bump
- Kick Downstairs
- Regiment
- Reassign
- Post
- Upgrade
- Relegate