Found 3 items, similar to Assign.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: assign
membantukan, mengangkat, menugaskan, menyerahkan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: assign
assign
v 1: give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task
to (a person) [syn:
delegate,
designate,
depute]
2: give out or allot;
“We were assigned new uniforms” [syn:
allot,
portion]
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Assign
Assign
\As*sign"\, n. [See
Assignee.] (Law)
A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as,
a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
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Assign
\As*sign"\, v. i. (Law)
To transfer or pass over property to another, whether for the
benefit of the assignee or of the assignor's creditors, or in
furtherance of some trust.
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Assign
\As*sign"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Assigned; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Assigning.] [OE. assignen, asignen, F. assigner, fr. L.
assignare; ad + signare to mark, mark out, designate, signum
mark, sign. See
Sign.]
1. To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
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In the order I assign to them. --Loudon.
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The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better
station than that in which his lot had been
assigned. --Southey.
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He assigned to his men their several posts.
--Prescott.
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2. 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.
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All as the dwarf the way to her assigned. --Spenser.
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It is not easy to assign a period more eventful.
--De Quincey.
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3. (Law) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to
transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called
assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
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To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's
share or portion in an estate. --Kent.
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Assign
\As*sign"\, n. [From
Assign, v.]
A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an
appurtenance. [Obs.]
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Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as
girdles, hangers, and so. --Shak.
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