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Assign

Definition: Assign

Assign

Verb

1. 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)


Specialty Definition: Assign

DomainDefinition

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.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Assign

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField
ASDEnglishAssign Symbolic DeviceN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Assign

Synonyms: 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Assign

ContextSynonyms 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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Crosswords: Assign

English words defined with "assign": advance, allow, appoint, appropriatebase, Because of, Behight, break, bump, burdencall, cast, categorise, categorize, celebrate, charge, classify, construe, contract outdate, delegate, demote, denominate, depute, designate, detail, Dracaenaceae, Dracenaceaeearmark, elevateFunctionalizegradehandicapinitialize, interpretkick downstairs, kick upstairslabel, lionize, locatemandate, mark, Misassign, miscall, misdate, misnamenameon the head, order, overestimate, overvaluePeculiarize, place, post, prioritize, promote, putraise, range, rank, rate, regiment, reinterpret, relegate, rename, reorder, reschedule, reserve, reshufflesaddle, score, seat, see, send, set aside, sign away, sign over, sit, sit down, site, slot, station, subfamily Dracaenaceae, subfamily Dracenaceaetask, time, To credit with, To dispose of, To knock down, To knock in the head, To knock off, To set off, To set outunderestimate, undervalue, upgradevalue. (references)
Specialty definitions using "assign": admissions clerk, APOC_RECBUS DRIVER, DAY-HAUL OR FARM CHARTERcinetechnician supervisor, Classing method, clinic clerk, COMPUTER SECURITY COORDINATOR, Controlled Clinical Trials, CTSIDAG shortest paths, data security coordinator, director of admissionsearmarked for assignment, EDITOR, BOOKForma Pauperis, Free Software Foundation, full command, funds transfer clerkgraph colouringHOSPITAL-ADMITTING CLERK, hospital-receiving clerk, Housing Unit After Followup Matchinginformation securit, instructor, dramatic artsJoint Bi-level Image Experts Grouplabel edge routermanager, transportation, medical clerk, MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY, method of equal proportions, motor vehicles supervisornews information resource manager, NEWS LIBRARIAN, news library director, newspaper library manageroperational command, optical mark recognition, ORDER DISPATCHER, CHIEFPerson After Followup Coding, PROJECT DIRECTOR, project managerQUALITY-CONTROL TECHNICIANREGISTRAR, COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITYSpearman rank correlation coefficient, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, STORY EDITOR, superintendent, automotive, SUPERINTENDENT, GREENS, SUPERINTENDENT, MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT, SUPERINTENDENT, TERMINAL, SUPERINTENDENT, TRANSPORTATION, SUPERVISOR, FORMING DEPARTMENT I, SUPERVISOR, HARDBOARD, SUPERVISOR, MOTION-PICTURE EQUIPMENT, SUPERVISOR, SHOPtactical command, TEACHER, DRAMA, teacher, dramatics, teacher, theater arts, to instantiate, transportation department headVirtual LANWIRE-TRANSFER CLERK. (references)
Etymologies containing "assign": AutonomousRetribute. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Assign

DomainTitle

Books

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Assign

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Historic Usage: Assign

AuthorDateQuotation

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.

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Use in Literature: Assign

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Assign

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Assign

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)75.33%28717,188
Lexical Verb (base form)23.88%9134,491
Unclassified Items0.79%3202,518
                    Total100.00%381N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Assign

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Assign

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

assign

21

assign drive letter

6

assign web

5

arena assign example model

4

assign file mtl

4

assign india

3

address assign ip

3

assign com port usb

3

access administration assign policy security

3

assign key

2

assign dts dynamically global variable

2

assign session value variable

2

assign letter

2

assign device

2

address assign cannot rcmd requested socket

2

assign deadline each goal must our realistic we

2

assign file flash player swf

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Assign

Language Translations for "assign"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

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)

   

Scottish

  

òrduich (arrange, command, decree, ordain). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

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)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

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)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

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)

   

Welsh

  

trosglwyddo (hand over, transfer), penodi (allot, appoint), gosod (affix, allot, appoint, artificial, attach, false, let, place, put, set). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Assign

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Assign

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)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Assign"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "assign" (pronounced usī"n)
4u s ī" nreassign.
3-s ī" nconsign, sign, sine.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Assign

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Assign


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 73 73 69 67 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ...    ...    ..    --.    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#115 &#115 &#105 &#103 &#110

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

358585757380

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INDEX

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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