assign
pronunciation
How to pronounce assign in British English:
UK [əˈsaɪn]
How to pronounce assign in American English:
US [əˈsaɪn]
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- Verb:
- give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- give out or allot
- attribute or credit to
- select something or someone for a specific purpose
- attribute or give
- make undue claims to having
- transfer one's right to
- decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
Word Origin
- assign
- assign: see sign
- assign (v.)
- c. 1300, from Old French assiginer (13c.) "assign, set (a date, etc.); appoint legally; allot," from Latin assignare "to mark out, to allot by sign, assign, award," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + signare "make a sign," from signum "mark" (see sign). Main original use was in English law, in transferences of personal property. General meaning "to fix, settle, determine, appoint" is from c. 1300. Related: Assigned; assigning.
Example
- 1. Assign him a task reflecting the size of his ego .
- 2. Assign restrictions and roles to specific pages , posts or categories .
- 3. You can assign it a custom color or move it up or down the list .
- 4. The idea is that you can open multiple curl handles and assign them to a single multi handle .
- 5. To exercise the makecounter method , I assign the code block to a c1 variable , then call it three times .