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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
assign
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
apportion/assign blameformal (= find someone to blame for something)
▪ He seemed to want to apportion blame for her death.
assign a task (=give someone a task to do)
▪ People were assigned different tasks.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
randomly
▪ In the Health Study, individual children were randomly assigned either vitamin A or placebo.
▪ Babies were randomly assigned to one of two groups.
▪ Patients are randomly assigned to treatments even if the doctor suspects that one form of treatment might be better.
▪ Subjects were randomly assigned to receive a placebo or the cholesterol-lowering drug pravastatin.
▪ Those with moderate risk are randomly assigned to either an oral insulin or a placebo.
▪ The suit against Proposition 209 was randomly assigned to another judge, Vaughn Walker.
▪ The male students were randomly assigned to one of four groups.
▪ Study participants were randomly assigned to two different groups.
■ NOUN
area
▪ Although conservation matters are generally assigned on an area basis, many councils now have their own conservation officers.
▪ Uneven as the crowd was, my path had taken me close to an outer edge near the earliest assigned parking area.
▪ Ward learning resources During her training, a student is assigned to various clinical areas for periods of six to twelve weeks.
▪ If we preserve both standards of review we then have to assign different subject-matter areas to each test.
▪ Cases were assigned to areas according to their residence address at diagnosis as defined for the national cancer registration scheme.
case
▪ We checked into it and Sun has two engineers assigned to the case.
▪ After they filed their report, a detective was assigned to the case to investigate.
▪ So is Joe Mantegna, as the homicide detective assigned to the case, telling her to let the law handle it.
▪ Rooney, is assigned to the Hastings case.
▪ A detective, more than a week after the incident is reported, is assigned to the case.
class
▪ It may be at least partly an artefact of the methodology used to assign speakers to social classes.
▪ A teacher had assigned the class to make a composition by taping personal objects into a notebook.
▪ Hence each person was assigned to a liability class based on age.
duty
▪ Ory and his deputy, Gen. Gustave Houphouët Koassi, were assigned to other unspecified duties.
▪ The other captain, assigned to aviation-liaison duty with Grunt Six, sat forward on the floor with his back to us.
▪ Mellowes has assigned me to the duties of the administrative assistants, then to those of the statistical clerks.
▪ A citizen assigned to jury duty is jailed for throwing a temper tantrum before a judge.
▪ He would be accompanied by the police officer assigned to liaison duties with the coroner's office.
▪ Managers must be able to establish priorities and assign duties.
▪ All disciplinary problems are brought before the Committee and the two prison wardens previously assigned these duties no longer perform them.
▪ After Mass they would begin their assigned housework duties, cooking, washing or administration.
group
▪ Study participants were randomly assigned to two different groups.
▪ For each of these problems a problem report will be entered into the computer system and assigned to the Computer Group Manager.
▪ These measures include being assigned to clients in groups of three or more.
job
▪ After graduation she was assigned a job in her home town.
▪ After graduating, she was assigned a job at a local company.
▪ They were suspect in the eyes of Communist officials, and assigned jobs they didn't like.
▪ Capable accountants and auditors should advance rapidly; those having inadequate academic preparation may be assigned routine jobs and find promotion difficult.
▪ This was an important right, because business agents assigned the jobs.
lease
▪ The plaintiff agreed to lease a property to Lunnis, who assigned this equitable lease by way of mortgage.
▪ Reform of the law which makes businesses still liable for their successors' defaults even after they have assigned the lease.
meaning
▪ Even variant pronunciations of the same word may on occasion be assigned contrasting meanings.
▪ Furthermore, Ishmael is alive because he alone did not assign specific meanings to events.
▪ We are arrested, fascinated, by a convulsion of sound to which we are unable to assign a meaning.
member
▪ Communication Each team to assign one member as Relationship Manager.
name
▪ A Part Number equal to the module name is automatically assigned for each module name reserved.
▪ So you create a single-record form layout on the screen, assigning names to fields and then selecting attributes from a menu.
▪ If a class is assigned a name or other designation, that too must be given in the statement.
number
▪ When her calluses turned raw, she requested another work station and was assigned to inspecting tiny numbers on color-coated wires.
▪ The Changes Log is described at Section 6 assign a change reference number to the change request.
▪ Networks assign the number pattern to a category.
▪ It is roughly to this period that we may assign a number of the burials excavated by Folke Bergman near Lopnur.
▪ The proposal is assigned a project number and project officer.
▪ The pupils' details were entered on to disk, each pupil was assigned a unique number and bar-codes were produced.
▪ In the next we assign each task a number.
officer
▪ Ross previously was assigned as executive officer of the amphibious assault ship Essex.
▪ Brown assigned most of his officers to neighborhood beats.
project
▪ The staff is assigned to the project on a full-time or part-time basis.
▪ The proposal is assigned a project number and project officer.
▪ In a fast-moving organization like Intel, a person is likely to be hired and assigned to a project.
▪ The EMs in it were not getting assigned to change management projects as easily as planned.
responsibility
▪ Adjoudji Hamadjoda, Minister of Livestock, was assigned temporary responsibility for the ministry.
▪ In public, the Clinton administration is declining to assign responsibility for the long deadlock.
▪ This facility will be used to record the progress of each problem and to assign responsibility for solving the problem.
▪ Physician and theologian join hands in assigning responsibility.
▪ Typically, managers focus on operating their area of assigned responsibility for efficiency, cost containment, and compliance with delivery schedules.
▪ For example, the project left open whether coaches would be assigned responsibility for specific teams.
role
▪ This appears from the role assigned to the Bundestag, elections and political parties in the constitutional system.
▪ Basically, it consistsTraditional caste systems in which roles are assigned at birth and enforced by social sanctions.
▪ But the roles are assigned and Andrew knows his role so well now.
▪ That role was assigned to older children, not always with their approval.
▪ The importance of reason in rationalism needs no further elaboration; our concern here is the equally important role assigned to doubt.
▪ Women are either absent, or present fulfilling for the most part the roles which were assigned to women in that society.
▪ These reasons do not justify the righteous role which they assign to the avenging vigilante.
▪ Whatever the different roles assigned, Palin invariably personified a sweatily ingratiating Milquetoast; and so forth.
score
▪ Thus, the speakers represented by tables 6.2 and 6.3 were assigned range scores of 5 and 0 respectively.
▪ The third segment might look very like a and be assigned a high score on the basis of its acoustic-phonetic features.
▪ This comparison was made by two scientists studying the node-link-node triples and assigning a quality score to each triple.
task
▪ Chapter 6 considers the question of how tasks can be assigned to levels within and between topics.
▪ What sorts of tasks we can assign to computers has been clear for many years.
▪ It proved quite impossible to carry out the task assigned without involvement in the still fluid political situation.
▪ Whatever the tasks assigned various ministers, they are intended for the well-being of the church, not its destruction.
▪ Sanitation: A special task force shall be assigned to clean up all vacant lots and trashed areas throughout the deprived areas.
▪ In the second phase, evaluation tasks will be assigned to laboratories throughout the 12 member states.
teacher
▪ Although assigned as teachers, only a minority of them had been professionally trained as teachers.
unit
▪ Let us now return to the question of assigning lexical units to lexemes.
user
▪ Every copy of the Issue which is sent out has a unique Issue identifier assigned by the user.
▪ You can set up menus which are assigned to specific users and passwords.
value
▪ It can be used to assign a value to a variable or as part of a test.
▪ Why do we assign less value to the cognitive environment than to the health of water, soil, and stone?
▪ Laws of assignment An occam process may assign values to its variables.
▪ Why should women value their traditional roles as important when society assigns theta little value?
▪ It could also be argued that the power to tax should be assigned a value in a governmental balance sheet.
▪ However, we believe there are limitations in the extent to which such impacts can be assigned strict quantitative values.
▪ Cleaning the house and preparing meals were assigned a value.
word
▪ From this a distribution of the word scores assigned to the target words was derived.
▪ Can teachers assign articles with vulgar words?
▪ However, the rules by which such indices are assigned to words are not totally reliable.
▪ A probability was assigned to any word string that could be formed from the spoken input.
▪ The score assigned to the word by the syntax analyser is shown beneath the word.
▪ The modification is a summation of the probabilities assigned to a word in each window position in which the word exists.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After her promotion took effect, she was assigned a research job.
▪ He was asked to assign two of his employees to the inventory control department.
▪ The job of producing a development program was assigned to the junior minister.
▪ You have been assigned the task of keeping the records up to date.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Academic freedom does not protect materials, discussions, or comments that are not relevant to the assigned subject.
▪ As a general rule, the costs of pledging and assigning are about equal.
▪ I have continued to stay at the Abbey of Holy Rood involved in the matter assigned to me.
▪ Ory and his deputy, Gen. Gustave Houphouët Koassi, were assigned to other unspecified duties.
▪ The ticket counter folks refused to assign us a seat, sending us to the gate.
▪ What was she assigned to do that day if you know?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assign

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.

    In the order I assign to them.
    --Loudon.

    The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.
    --Southey.

    He assigned to his men their several posts.
    --Prescott.

  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.

    All as the dwarf the way to her assigned.
    --Spenser.

    It is not easy to assign a period more eventful.
    --De Quincey.

  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.

    To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate.
    --Kent.

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.

Assign

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.

Assign

Assign \As*sign"\, n. [From Assign, v.] A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance. [Obs.]

Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so.
--Shak.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
assign

c.1300, from Old French assiginer (13c.) "assign, set (a date, etc.); appoint legally; allot," from Latin assignare "to mark out, to allot by sign, assign, award," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + signare "make a sign," from signum "mark" (see sign). Main original use was in English law, in transferences of personal property. General meaning "to fix, settle, determine, appoint" is from c.1300. Related: Assigned; assigning.

Wiktionary
assign

n. 1 An assignee. 2 (context obsolete English) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance. vb. 1 (lb en transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose. 2 (lb en transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office. 3 (lb en transitive) To allot or give something as a task. 4 (lb en transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories. 5 (lb en transitive legal) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another. 6 (lb en transitive computing programming) To give (a value) to a variable.

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WordNet
assign

  1. v. 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]

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Usage examples of "assign".

It is true, the prices assigned by the assize of Richard were meant as a standard for the accompts of sheriffs and escheators and as considerable profits were allowed to these ministers, we may naturally suppose that the common value of cattle was somewhat higher: yet still, so great a difference between the prices of corn and cattle as that of four to one, compared to the present rates, affords important reflections concerning the very different state of industry and tillage in the two periods.

George Posey, from the corporate division, was assigned to handle accounting and finance.

Probability assigns them to the SPEEDWELL, and they are needed to make her accredited number.

Soul is allotted its fortunes, and not at haphazard but always under a Reason: it adapts itself to the fortunes assigned to it, attunes itself, ranges itself rightly to the drama, to the whole Principle of the piece: then it speaks out its business, exhibiting at the same time all that a Soul can express of its own quality, as a singer in a song.

In his speech he assigned the alteration of the currency as the chief cause of the calamity, since it operated injuriously on all classes except the fundholder and annuitant, and by its ruinous effects on private contracts, as well as public payments, was calculated to endanger all kinds of property.

The several thousand Americans trained in Japanese language and culture during the war in anticipation of being assigned to military-government duties often found themselves sent elsewhere than Japan.

Therefore let him assign to him a term, that is, such a day of such a year, for the giving and receiving from the Judge such apostils as he shall have decided to submit.

For example, let him assign the twentieth day of August, in the present year, at the hour of vespers, and the chamber of the Judge himself in such a house, in such a city, for the giving and receiving of apostils such as shall have been decided upon for such appellant.

And during the assigned interval the Judge shall diligently examine the copy of the appeal, and the reasons or objections upon which it is based, and shall consult with learned lawyers whether he shall submit negative apostils, that is, negative answers, and thereby disallow the appeal, or whether he shall allow the appeal and submit affirmative and fitting apostils to the Judge to whom the appeal is made.

Fourthly: what shall be said of the apotheosis of their celebrated heroes and emperors by the Greeks and Romans, whereby these were elevated to the dignity of deities, and seats were assigned them in heaven?

By connecting isolated things with mental groups already formed, and by assigning to the new its proper place among them, apperception not only increases the clearness and definiteness of ideas, but knits them more firmly to our consciousness.

Rear Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, was assigned Jaluit and Mili in the southern Marshalls and Makin in the northern Gilberts.

Every available aircraft was gassed and loaded with its assigned assortment of bombs and ammunition.

Wildcats were assigned to the Army and placed on ready duty at Wheeler Field.

The Wildcats climbed sharply, forming into two sections of CAP and the Dauntlesses fanned out on their assigned search sections.