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Definition: Assign |
AssignVerb1. Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person). 2. Give out; "We were assigned new uniforms". 3. Attribute to a source or cause; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare". 4. Select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher ssigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise". 5. Put something on or into (abstractly) assign; ; "She put 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". 6. Make undue claims to having. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "assign" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Assign \As*sign"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Assigned; Assigning.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Insurance | Any person to whom some right or property has been assigned or transferred. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| ASD | English | Assign Symbolic Device | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: AssignSynonyms: allot (v), arrogate (v), ascribe (v), attribute (v), delegate (v), depute (v), designate (v), impute (v), portion (v), put (v), set apart (v), specify (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Apportionment | Partition, assign, appropriate, appoint. |
Allocate, ration, ration out; assign; separate. | |
Arrangement | Verb: reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally. arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order; set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of, assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion. |
Attribution | Verb: attribute to, ascribe to, impute to, refer to, lay to, point to, trace to, bring home to; put down to, set down to, blame; charge on, ground on; invest with, assign as cause, lay at, the door of, father upon; account for, derive from, point out the reason; theorize; tell how it comes; put the saddle on the right horse. |
Commission | Verb: commission, delegate, depute; consign, assign; charge; intrust, entrust; commit, commit to the hands of; authorize; (permit). |
Duty | Impose a duty; Noun: enjoin, require, exact; bind, bind over; saddle with, prescribe, assign, call upon, look to, oblige. |
Giving | Verb: deliver, hand, pass, put into the hands of; hand over, make over, deliver over, pass over, turn over; assign dower. |
Give, bestow, confer, grant, accord, award, assign. | |
Transfer | Verb: transfer, convey; alienate, alien; assign; grant; (confer); consign; make over, hand over; pass, hand, transmit, negotiate; hand down; exchange;(interchange). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Christian Nevell Bovee | We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | The guardian of the land of an heir who is thus under age, shall take from the land of the heir nothing but reasonable produce, reasonable customs, and reasonable services, and that without destruction or waste of men or goods; and if we have committed the wardship of the lands of any such minor to the sheriff, or to any other who is responsible to us for its issues, and he has made destruction or waster of what he holds in wardship, we will take of him amends, and the land shall be committed to two lawful and discreet men of that fee, who shall be responsible for the issues to us or to him to whom we shall assign them; and if we have given or sold the wardship of any such land to anyone and he has therein made destruction or waste, he shall lose that wardship, and it shall be transferred to two lawful and discreet men of that fief, who shall be responsible to us in like manner as aforesaid. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | The Secretary of State, being a person holding an office under the authority of the United States, is precisely within the letter of the description; and if this court is not authorized to issue a writ of mandamus to such an officer, it must be because the law is unconstitutional, and therefore incapable of conferring the authority, and assigning the duties which its words purport to confer and assign. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Try to assign a number from 0 to 10 to your pain level. (references) | |
Researchers assign patients "randomly" to the treatment or control group. (references) | ||
Doctors will often assign one of three grades to an astrocytoma following biopsy. (references) | ||
Business | It is difficult to assign rates of duty to all types of vehicle security equipment and devices. (references) | |
Until 1994-1995, the post-Soviet industrial collapse had compelled Russian government agencies and enterprises to assign water pollution control expenditures a low priority. (references) | ||
The agency has a right to control how the Law on Telecommunications and other telecommunications regulations are observed, to approve and control devices and equipment, to assign radio frequencies and telephone numbers, and to perform radio monitoring. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Spain | For example, the government income tax form includes a box that allows taxpayers to assign 0.5239 percent of their taxes to the Catholic Church. (references) |
Belarus | Another decree granted the Ministry of Press the authority to assign graduates of state-supported journalism schools to work in state-owned media organizations as a way to repay their schooling. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | Shortly after the February 1999 Tashkent bombings, President Karimov directed that each committee assign a "defender of the people," whose job it was to ensure that young persons in the neighborhoods were not joining independent Islamic groups. (references) | |
Economic History | Yemen | Once approved, the Ministry will assign a registration number. (references) |
Uk | Copyright: The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 grants the originator the exclusive right to assign those rights or to exploit them through copying, dissemination, publication or sale. (references) | |
Romania | They are allowed to participate in the management and administration of the investment, as well as to assign their contractual obligations and their rights to other Romanian or foreign investors. (references) | |
Human Rights | Suriname | The courts assign lawyers in private practice to defend indigent prisoners and pays lawyers from public funds. (references) |
Bhutan | In cases where defendants cannot write their own defense, courts assign judicial officers to assist defendants. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | The accused may be assisted by counsel, and a judge may assign counsel to those defendants when it is deemed necessary. (references) | |
Trade | Kuwait | U.S. firms can work through their agents to assign the proceeds of the contract in favor of the local bank. (references) |
Russia | A CBR permit is also required to assign an exporter's or importer's payment right and the assignment of an importer's or foreign supplier's debt to a third party. (references) | |
Colombia | Under Decision 370, Andean Community countries are obliged to assign a common external tariff (CET) for imports coming from third countries and, at the same time, eliminate duties for products manufactured and imported from within the region. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | When serious or fatal industrial accidents occur, the authorities often fail to fully investigate and assign responsibility for negligence, if any. (references) |
Belgium | The Ministries of Interior and Foreign Affairs have worked closely together to assign antitrafficking liaison officers to Belgian embassies in countries of origin, including Albania, Cote d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Assign" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.33% of the time. "Assign" is used about 381 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 75.33% | 287 | 17,188 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 23.88% | 91 | 34,491 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.79% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 381 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "assign": assign a task ♦ assign dower ♦ assign responsibility ♦ assign to ♦ To assign dower ♦ to assign resources to tasks. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "assign": assign-output-file. | |
Ending with "assign": re-assign. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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Afrikaans | daag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | atribuoj (ascribe, charge up, credit), transferoj (circulate, devolve, down-load, draft, draught, move, shift, transfer, translate, trans-ship), përcaktoj (article, ascertain, condition, define, design, designate, destine, determine, elect, evaluate, stipulate), jap (accord, adjudge, administer, afford, allow, award, bear, bestow, come through, concede, deliver, dish, dispense, furnish, get through, give, give in, hand in, impart, land, lend, pay, present, produce, provide, reach, throw, vouchsafe, yield), fiksoj (affix, arrange, clinch, fasten, fix, freeze, hang, impress, Mount, nail, pin down, pose, print, secure, set, settle, stabilize), caktoj (allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate, arrange, award, call, constitute, designate, detail, fix, instal, install, instate, intend, lay on, make, mete, name, nominate, order, put, qualify, set, tell off, zone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نقل (alien, alienate, bandy, carriage, carry, carry forward, communicate, convection, convey, conveyance, copy, deliver, freight, go cart, hand on, handling, pass on, pipe, portage, promotion, propagate, relocate, remove, reproduction, route, shift, take away, tote, transfer, transference, transfuse, transit, transmission, transmit, transport, transportation), نسب (ascription, belong, derivation, descent, extraction, issue, kin, lineage, parentage, pedigree, propinquity, relation, relationship), حول ملكية, حدد (adjust, allocate, appoint, assess, be specified, calibrate, center, centre, condition, constrict, define, determine, fix, itemize, limit, line, locate, mark, name, narrow, pin, pinpoint, prefix, prescribe, qualify, set, shoe, type), تخلى (abandon, cast aside, cede, desist, disgorge, expose, forsake, give up, go back on, hand over, leave, let down, part, quit, release, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, resign, retreat, shake, shrift, sign away, slough, swear off, throw over, turn one's back on, vacate, waive, walk out on, yield), عين (allocate, appoint, assist, constitute, create, define, delimit, designate, eye, install, institute, make, name, ordain, peeper, poach, post, prefix, put, rescue, set smb. on smb., specify, state, succor, succour, supply, tap), عزا (attribute, impute, refer), خصص (allocate, allow, appropriate, consign, designate, destine, detail, devote, earmark, give, particularize, spare, specify), رجع (back, come back, cut back, get back, give back, go back, pass back, rebound, reconsider, reestablish, reinstate, render, report back, resound, retreat, return, reverse, revert, send back, snap back, step back, turn, turn back, turn in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | възлагам (allocate, allot, apportion, commission, depute, detail, endue, entrust, indue, put on, rest, set), отреждам (allot, destine, intend, reserve), определям (allot, allow, characterize, define, design, determine, fix, give, govern, identify, intend, lay, mark down, modify, name, nominate, pigeonhole, pitch, prescribe, qualify, set down, settle, spot, state), прехвърлям (alienate, convey, deed, devolve, heave, surmount, transfer), предназначавам (design, designate, destine, intend, mean, mete out, reserve), приписвам (accredit, attach, credit, impute, lay, refer, set down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 分配 (Allocate, Assigned, Assigning, Portioned, Portioning), 分派 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zadat (give), vyhradit (appropriate, give over), urèit (allocate, appoint, define, design, designate, destine, determine, earmark, fix, identify, intend for, lay down, ordain, reserve, settle, state, will), přidìlit (allocate, apportion, cast), přiřadit (classify), převést na. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | assignatar (assignee, transferee), anvise, tildele, overdrage (alienate, cede, grant, transfer), cedere (cede, grant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | dagvaarden (to sue someone, to summon someone), dagen (days), betekenen (imply, mean, signify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | asigni, taski. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقررداشتن (Adjudge, Adjudicate, Award, Doom, Enjoin, Govern, Provision, Resolve), قلمدادکردن , گماشتن (Appoint, Charge, Designate), واگذارکردن (Abandon, Abdicate, Admit, Cede, Concede, Entrust, Give, Relegate, Remise, Surrender, Title, Transfer, Vest, Yield), تعیین کردن (Appoint, Assess, Bound, Determine, Fix, Locate, Prescribe, Qualify, Slate, Specify, State, Telloff), ذکرکردن (Cite, Mention, Ming, Mingle, Patter, Specify), اختصاص دادن (Allocate, Appropriate, Dedicate, Devote, Earmark, Reserve), ارجاع کردن , بخش کردن (Apportion, Lot, Share). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | siirtää (carry forward, convey, dislodge, displace, endorse, graft, hand over, make ... over, move, remove, shift, transfer, transmit, transplant, transport), määrätä (appoint, determine, direct, fix, lay down, modify, order, prescribe, preseribe, provide, qualify), jakaa osuus (allot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | assigner, céder, attribuer (ascribe), affecter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zuweisen (allocate, allot, ascription, detail), zuteilen (allocate, allot, apportion, deal, detail, distribute, portion, ration, ration out, to allot, to apportion), zuordnen (assign to, to assign to, to associate), zedieren (cede), beauftragen (appoint, brief, burden, charge, commission, employ, engage, entrust, hire, instruct, load, retain, set up, tell, to instruct). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναθέτω (allocate, charge, commend to, confide, delegate, entrust, recommend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ליע" (allocate, appoint, destine, earmark, ordain, reserve), ליח" (allocate, appropriate, devote, set apart), ל"קציב (allocate, allot, allow, apply, funds, mete, portion, ration, set aside, set the pace), ל"קצות (allocate, chip, scrape). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | illetékes (competent, privy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menyerahkan (concere, extradict), menugaskan, mengangkat (adopt, appoint, carry, designate, doff, elevate, heave, lift, nab, pick up, promote, raise, take up), membantukan (detail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cedere (abandon, cede, crack, devote, give, give in, give up, give way, hand over, knuckle, relent, relinquish, render, sag, sell, submit, succumb, surrender, yield), assegnare (adjudge, allocate, allot, allow, award, distribute, endow, instruct, mean, post, set). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | アクリル繊維 (accommodator, accord, accordion, accordion door, accordion pleats, achromatic lens, acid, acidosis, acoustic, acoustic guitar, acoustic sound, acrobat, acrobatic, acrobatic dance, acrobatic dancer, acropolis, acrylic fiber, acrylonitrile, against, against wind, agglomeration, aggressive, agitation, agoraphobia, agreement, agribusiness, agriculture, Asia, Asia dollar, aside, assassin, assault, assert, assertiveness training, assignment, assist, assistance, assistant, assistant director, assistant manager, assistant purser, asymmetric design, asymmetry, contortionist, to instigate, to stir up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アサイン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 당하십시" (Allocate, Allot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | livrey (deliver, liberate, rescue, yield up), enmyssagh (addressee, assignee, definable, nominee, terminological), cur seose da (make over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | assignay atribuir (accredit, allot, ascribe, attach, attribute, impute, put, put on, refer), transferir propriedade, titular de direito (assignee, claimant, eligible person, interested party, party entitled, person entitled, rightful claimant), prescrever (command, dictate, order, prescribe, superannuate, tell), ordenar (appoint, assort, bid, charge, class, command, decree, dictate, dispose, enact, enjoin, fix up, frock, impose, instruct, marshal, ordain, order, pigeonhole, post, prescribe, put in order, range, settle, sort, tell, tidy), nomear (appoint, call, choose, create, denominate, depute, designate, elect, institute, name, nominate, pick out, place, prefer), mandatário (mandatary, mandatory), fixar (affix, allocate, append, appoint, clench, cling to, define, determine, engrave, fasten, firm, fix, get caught on, impact, joggle, lodge, make fast, nail, pin, pitch, plant, put, record, rivet, root, secure, steady, tie), especificar (detail, itemize, list, particularize, specialize, specify, stipulate), delegado (commissary, commissioner, delegate, deputy, legate, substitute, surrogate, vicar), cessionário (accepting office, assignee, transferee), ceder (break, bring to one's knees, cede, convey, demise, desist, dispose of, fold, give in, give up, give way, go, hand over, humor, humour, indulge, knuckle under, part with, prelude, pull off, relinquish, resign, sag, sell, sink, spare, submit, succumb, to yield, transfer, truckle, vail, vend, weaken, yield). (various references) aloca (allocate, allot, allow, apportion, appropriate, grant, portion), atribui (accredit, allot, attach, attribute, impute, refer), fixa (accommodate, adapt, adjust, affix, anchor, appoint, arrange, arrest, ascertain, assess, attach, attune, bed, bind, bond, brace, clamp, clasp, define, determine, dog, establish, fasten, find, fit, fix, hitch, immobilize, impact, imprint, indicate, ingrain, lay, make fast, Mount, nail, nail down, name, nominate, pin, pin down, place, put on, recognize, regulate, schedule, secure, settle, stamp, state, stick, stiffen, stipulate, strengthen, tie, trace, tune), ceda (bend, cave in, cede, come to terms, comply, concede, convey, defer, deliver over, deliver up, demise, give, give way, go, knock under, knuckle under, lower one's colour, release, renounce, resign, slack, spare, submit, surrender, yield), consacra (consecrate, dedicate to, devote to, establish, give, hallow, sanctify, sanction, spend), desemna (appoint, designate), împãrţi (admeasure, allot, apportion, branch, cast, comminute, deal, distribute, divide, dole, go snacks, impart, lay on, measure out, mete, mete out, parcel out, partake of, partition, pass out, portion, retail, section, share, slice, split), distribui (admeasure, apportion, deal, dispense, distribute, divide, give out, measure out, mete, mete out, pass out, portion, serve out, share out, spread), trasa (draw, indicate, sketch, trace), impune (carry, compel, enforce, enjoin, entail, force, get, impose, lay, lay on, protrude, rate, tax), interesat (concerned, interested, interestedly, mercantile, mercenary, selfish, self-seeking), mandatã, repartiza (allocate, allot, apportion, deal, dispense, distribute, divide, pass out, share out), transfera (cede, deliver, displace, relegate, remise, shift, sign off, transfer), transmite (bestow, carry, circulate, communicate, confer, consign to, convey, deliver, deliver over, demise, devolve, give, hand, pass, perpetuate, record, refer, remit, render, send, transfer, transfuse, transmit), destina (allocate, allot, appropriate, design, destine, doom into, intend, make, mean for). (various references) определять (appoint, define, designate, destine, determine, fix, identify to, mete, modify, pinpoint, qualify, rate, sniff out, specifies, specify), назначать (apoint, appoint, constitute, destine, elect, name, order), ассигновать (allocate), правопреемник (assignee), присваивать (appropriate, arrogate, assign to, assume, embezzle, peculate, poach). (various references) òrduich (arrange, command, decree, ordain). (various references) zadati (cause, give, inflict, land), preneti (broadcast, carry, carry forward, carry over, communicate, convey, negotiate, relay, remise, translate), odrediti (allot, appoint, appropriate, cast, define, designate, destine, detail, determine, fix, mark off, mark out, modify, order, peg, route, set, set by), dosuditi (adjudge, adjudicate, award, ordain), dodeliti (allocate, allot, award, bestow, confer, endue, give, grant, vest). (various references) ceder (acquiesce, budge, cede, concede, dispose of, give, give in, give up, give way, go, grant, hand over, make over, part with, relent, relinquish, render up, sign away, sign over, transfer, turn over, waive, yield), asignar (allocate, allot, allow, apportion, appropriate, detail, earmark, instruct, mete, settle, upgrade). (various references) tilldela (administer, allocate, allot, award, confer, impart, inflict, lot, mete), anslå (allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, estimate, grant, placard, post, put up a notice, strike). (various references) atamak (accredit, advance, appoint, co opt, commission, constitute, coopt, create, depute, deputize, designate, elect, install, institute, nominate, ordain, post, prefer, station), vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, administer, allow, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, dedicate, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, extend, furnish, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, put up, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), tahsis etmek (allot, dedicate, devote, earmark), saptamak (appoint, determine, establish, fix, peg, state), göreve seçmek, devretmek (alienate, cede, circuit, circulate, convey, deliver, devolve, dispose of, hand down, hand on, hand over, pass, pass on, revolve, slew, slue, transfer, turn over), devralan kimse (assignee), belirlemek (adjust, appoint, assess, condition, decide, define, detect, determine, dictate, establish, identify, limit, note, peg, seal, set, set down, settle, single out, slate, specify, state), bağlamak (affiliate, attach, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed). (various references) установлювати (ascertain, lay, plant, set, state), відводити (abduct, allot, appoint, apportion, avert, drain, draw away, shunt, take back), визначати (balance, decree, define, designate, determinate, determine, govern, identify, mete, operate, ordain, order, single, specificate, tell), зобов'язувати (call for, enjoin, impose, indebt, obligate, oblige, tie, tie up), асигнувати (allocate, appropriate), правонаступник (assignee), призначати на посаду (commission, induct, nominate), призначати (administer, administrate, affect, allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate, attach, consign, constitute, design, direct, fix, intend, make, mark out, mean, name, number, order, put, tell off), приписувати (accredit, allege, appoint, arrogate, ascribe, attach, attribute, credit, credit with, enjoin, foist, ordain, prescribe, refer), передавати (attribute, circulate, communicate, deliver, devolve, give, give over, hand down, hand on, hand over, pass, present, reach, send, transfer, transmit), доручати (accredit, charge, commit, confide, consign, entrust, intrust, trust). (various references) trosglwyddo (hand over, transfer), penodi (allot, appoint), gosod (affix, allot, appoint, artificial, attach, false, let, place, put, set). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | addixistis, adiudicabit, adiudicatus, adiudicavit, adponam, adponat, adponatis, adponatur, adpone, adponentur, adponerent, adponet, adponetur, adponitur, adponunt, adponuntur, adposita, adpositae, adpositaque, adpositi, adpositis, adpositus, adpositusque, adposuerit, adposuerunt, adposui, adposuit, adsignavero, adsignavit, adtributa, assignare, delego, describo, destinatam, destinatos, destinatum, destinaverunt, destinavit, dispertiam, dispertiatur, dispertitae, dispertitus, disponam, disponamus, disponat, dispone, disponens, disponent, disponentur, dispones, disponet, disponis, dispono, disposita, dispositi, disposito, dispositum, disposuerat, disposuerunt, disposui, disposuisti, disposuit, distribuatis, distribuent, distribuerent, distribueret, distribuero, distribuerunt, distribui, distribuit, distribuite, distributi, inponam, inponas, inponat, inponatur, inpone, inponebant, inponebat, inponendi, inponens, inponent, inponentem, inponentes, inponentesque, inponentque, inponere, inponeremus, inponerent, inponeret, inpones, inponet, inponetis, inponetque, inponetur, inponi, inponit, inponite, inponunt, inposita, inpositae, inpositam, inpositasque, inpositione, inpositionem, inpositionis, inpositis, inpositisque, inposito, inpositum, inpositumque, inposueris, inposuerunt, inposueruntque, inposui, inposuissent, inposuisset, inposuisti, inposuit, inposuitque, suggero, tribu, tribuam, tribuat, tribuatur, tribue, tribuebam, tribuebat, tribuendo, tribuens, tribuerat, tribuerit, tribuet, tribui, tribuisti, tribuit, tribuitis, tribuo, tributa, tributi, tributis, tributo, tributorum, tributum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "assign": assignabilities, assignability, assignable, assignat, assignation, assignations, assignats, assigned, assignee, assignees, assigner, assigners, assigning, assignment, assignments, assignor, assignors, assigns. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "assign": preassign, reassign. (additional references) | |
Words containing "assign": preassigned, preassigning, preassigns, reassigned, reassigning, reassignment, reassignments, reassigns, unassigned. (additional references) | |
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"Assign" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acsin, Asang, asign, asin, asnign, asong, assain, assan, Assane, assen, assern, assi, assighn, assigne, assini, asson, assuing, atsign, Aussig, Dassin, kassin, sasine, Tassigny. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "assign" (pronounced usī"n) |
| 4 | u s ī" n | reassign. |
| 3 | -s ī" n | consign, sign, sine. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: gains, sains, sasin, signs, sings, snags. | |
-2 letters: agin, ains, anis, gain, gins, nags, sags, sain, sang, sans, sign, sing, sins, snag. | |
-3 letters: ain, ais, ani, ass, gan, gas, gin, ins, nag, sag, sin, sis. | |
-4 letters: ag, ai, an, as, in, is, na, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: askings, assigns, casings, gaskins, gassing, massing, passing, sashing, sassing, savings, sayings, signals. | |
+2 letters: agenesis, agnosias, agonises, agonists, amassing, assaying, assignat, assigned, assignee, assigner, assignor, assuming, assuring, bastings, biassing, bisnagas, brassing, caginess, castings, chasings, classing, eastings, essaying, fastings, gainless, gainsays, gaminess, gaskings, gassings, gastrins, giantess, glassine, glassing, glossina, grassing, hassling, lashings, lassoing, lastings, leasings, linsangs, maskings, passings, pingrass, raisings, rassling, reassign, sackings, sacrings, sailings, saltings, sangrias, saplings, seatings, seringas, shadings, shavings, siamangs, siganids, signages, signoras, sinkages, skatings, slashing, slatings, slayings, smashing, soarings, spacings, spaeings, spinages, stagings, stashing, swashing, syringas, washings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 73 73 69 67 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ... ... .. --. -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A s s i g n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0073 0073 0069 0067 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)358585757380 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Historic 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Abbreviations 15. Acronyms 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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