assign   (Sound)

The verb assign has 8 senses

• delegate, designate, depute, assign -- (give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person))


• assign, allot, portion -- (give out; "We were assigned new uniforms")


• impute, ascribe, assign, attribute -- (attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats")


• assign, specify, set apart -- (select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise")


• put, assign -- (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")


• arrogate, assign -- (make undue claims to having)


• assign -- (transfer one's right to)


• assign, attribute -- (decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class")