Definition of Assign

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Assign

To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

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.

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Assign Quotations

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

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

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
H. P. Blavatsky

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.
Edward Sapir

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.
James S. Coleman

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.
Marcus V. Pollio

While the Environmental Genome Project does not seek to assign allele frequencies, we are aware of the importance of accurate allele frequency estimates for future epidemiologic studies and the large sample sizes such estimates will require.
Samuel Wilson

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.
Richard Perle

A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.
Julius Wellhausen

Assign Translations

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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