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assign
v 1: give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) [syn: {delegate}, {designate}, {depute}] 2: give out or allot; "We were assigned new uniforms" [syn: {allot}, {portion}] 3: attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" [syn: {impute}, {ascribe}, {attribute}] 4: select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise" [syn: {specify}, {set apart}] 5: 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" [syn: {put}] 6: make undue claims to having [syn: {arrogate}] 7: transfer one's right to 8: decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class" [syn: {attribute}] ▼ Từ liên quan / Related words
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