Arraying and Assign
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Array.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person.
- Give out.
- usage: "We were assigned new uniforms"
- Attribute or credit to.
- usage: "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
- Select something or someone for a specific purpose.
- usage: "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
- 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
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.