Array and Assign

noun

• An orderly arrangement.
  • usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
• An impressive display.
  • usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
• Especially fine or decorative clothing.
  • synonyms: raiment, regalia
• An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

• Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
  • usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
  • synonyms: range, lay out, set out
• Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
  • synonyms: align

• (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
• (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied especially to dress of a splendid kind.
• (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
• (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
• (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
• (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
• (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
• (n.) An imposing series of things.
• (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
• (n.) The panel itself.

verb

• Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person.
  • synonyms: delegate, designate, depute
• Give out.
  • usage: "We were assigned new uniforms"
  • synonyms: allot, portion
• Attribute or credit to.
  • usage: "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
  • synonyms: impute, ascribe, attribute
• Select something or someone for a specific purpose.
  • usage: "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
  • synonyms: specify, set apart
• Attribute or give.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: put
• Make undue claims to having.
  • synonyms: arrogate
• Transfer one's right to.
• Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme.
  • usage: "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"
  • synonyms: attribute

• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.) A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
• (v.t.) To transfer or make over to another, especially to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
• (v.t.) To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
• (n.) A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
• (v.i.) 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.

To transfer or make over to another, to sell (see' Assignment of Mortgage').

To detail individuals to specific duties or functions where such duties or functions are primary and/or relatively permanent. See also attach.