Word Information

Assign

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  • Words with Friends

Definitions for Assign

verb
give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
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verb
give out
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Examples
  1. We were assigned new uniforms
verb
attribute or credit to
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Examples
  1. We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare
  2. People impute great cleverness to cats
verb
select something or someone for a specific purpose
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specify set apart
Examples
  1. The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise
verb
attribute or give
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put
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  1. She put too much emphasis on her the last statement
  2. He put all his efforts into this job
  3. The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story
verb
make undue claims to having
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verb
transfer one's right to
verb
decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
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  1. The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class

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