Dictionary Entry
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.
6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive verb
To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
- 4verb
A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
- 5noun
A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
- 6verb
select something or someone for a specific purpose
"The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
Synonyms
- 7verb
attribute or credit to
"We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"
"People impute great cleverness to cats"
- 8verb
decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
"The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"
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- 9verb
attribute or give
"She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"
"He put all his efforts into this job"
Synonyms
- 10verb
transfer one's right to
- 11verb
give out
"We were assigned new uniforms"
- 12verb
make undue claims to having
Synonyms
- 13verb
give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
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