[
US
/əˈsaɪn/
]
[ UK /ɐsˈaɪn/ ]
[ UK /ɐsˈaɪn/ ]
VERB
-
give out
We were assigned new uniforms -
decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class -
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 -
select something or someone for a specific purpose
The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise -
attribute or credit to
People impute great cleverness to cats
We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare - make undue claims to having
- give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- transfer one's right to
How To Use assign In A Sentence
- Once upon a time there were three beautiful girls who went to a writing college, and they were each assigned very hazardous duties.
- I have returned to campus enlivened by a sense of professional renewal, and I have developed course syllabi, assignments, and activities that incorporate many ideas from my fellowship experiences.
- The latest strategy is now seen dropping unsupported accusations across the media spectrum to the effect that the intelligence agency's assignment of Ambassador Joseph Wilson to look into the now-discredited Iraq/Niger/uranium claims were all part of a long-term insidious scheme to try and discredit the Bush Administration. Brad Friedman: Wingnuts Declare Coordinated All-Out Cross-Media War on CIA as Newest Front in TreasonGate!
- What splendor and pulchritude, what symmetry in all things, what assets for the necessities of life have you not granted and assigned to this land and its inhabitants! Brotherhood of the Butterfly Net
- Boschi, who trained with Passignano in the late 1580s, is known today principally to specialists, but he enjoyed a considerable degree of popularity in the early seicento.
- Soldiers assigned to staff positions must be computer-literate and seek training for the operating systems and programs they will use.
- I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
- From his driveway, Benelli dispatches patrol cars and sends officers to new assignments.
- I had mixed feelings when I learned of your new assignment. Although we will miss you, we have to admit that management has made a wise choice in placing you where they can benefit most from your talents. We will long remember the hard work and happy moments we have shared. You have been a great team member. Best wishes and keep up the good work.
- So numerous and various were the influences, formative and impellent, which combined to bring the colonies up to the precise ripening-point of their independence, as to make it difficult to assign each its proper force. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876