assign

assign has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• v. t.. To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
• 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. t.. To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
• v.. A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
• n.. A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
• v.. select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
• v.. attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
• v.. decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"
• v.. attribute or give; "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"
• v.. transfer one's right to
• v.. give out; "We were assigned new uniforms"
• v.. make undue claims to having