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.
To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
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.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing. Jerry Saltz
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? Charles Baudelaire
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. Christian Nestell Bovee
We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature. Robert Lanza
assign in Afrikaans is daag
assign in Dutch is betekenen, dagen, dagvaarden
assign in French is assignent, assigner, assignons, assignez, mandater
assign in German is beauftragen, zuweisen, zuteilen
assign in Italian is delegare
assign in Latin is tribuo, delego
assign in Portuguese is atribua
assign in Spanish is asignar, adjudicar, comisionar
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