Definition of assign

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Assign (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..

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Set :: Set (v. t.) To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned..
Consign :: Consign (v. t.) To assign; to devote; to set apart.
Assignat :: Assignat (n.) One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state..
Chronology :: Chronology (n.) The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates..
Attributive :: Attributive (a.) Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute..
Allotment :: Allotment (n.) The act of allotting; assignment.
Designator :: Designator (n.) An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.
Date :: Date (n.) Assigned end; conclusion.
Peculiarize :: Peculiarize (v. t.) To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession..
Assigner :: Assigner (n.) One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions..
Ration :: Ration (n.) A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence..
Ephemeris :: Ephemeris (n.) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days..
Default :: Default (n.) A neglect of, or failure to take, some step necessary to secure the benefit of law, as a failure to appear in court at a day assigned, especially of the defendant in a suit when called to make answer; also of jurors, witnesses, etc..
Place :: Place (n.) To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis..
Attribute :: Attribute (v. t.) To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to)..
Duty :: Duty (n.) Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty..
Indorsement :: Indorsement (n.) That which is written on the back of a note, bill, or other paper, as a name, an order for, or a receipt of, payment, or the return of an officer, etc.; a writing, usually upon the back, but sometimes on the face, of a negotiable instrument, by which the property therein is assigned and transferred..
Involution :: Involution (n.) The act or process of raising a quantity to any power assigned; the multiplication of a quantity into itself a given number of times; -- the reverse of evolution.
Depute :: Depute (v. t.) To appoint; to assign; to choose.
Function :: Function (n.) The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind..
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