assign
assign is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
- transitive verb. 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.
- transitive verb. To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
- verb. A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
- noun. A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
- verb. select something or someone for a specific purpose
"The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
- verb. attribute or credit to
"We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"
"People impute great cleverness to cats"
- verb. decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
"The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"
- verb. attribute or give
"She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"
"He put all his efforts into this job"
- verb. transfer one's right to
- verb. give out
"We were assigned new uniforms"
- verb. make undue claims to having
- verb. give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
Synonyms
specify, ascribe, attribute, impute, put, allot, portion, arrogate, delegate, depute, designate
Common word forms
assigns, assigned, assigner, assigning, assignable, assignment
Words from these letters
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