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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)
--1 is one way to appoint, charge
Sample sentence:
They assign him to write the letter
- assign, allot, portion - give out or allot; "We were assigned new uniforms"
--2 is one way to distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out
Sample sentences:
They assign cars to the tourists
They assign the tourists their cars
- impute, ascribe, assign, attribute - attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
--3 is one way to judge
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s something PP
- assign, specify, set apart - select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
--4 is one way to choose, take, select, pick out
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- 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"
--5 is one way to use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
- arrogate, assign - make undue claims to having
--6 is one way to claim, lay claim, arrogate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- assign - transfer one's right to
--7 is one way to transfer
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- assign, attribute - decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"
--8 is one way to judge
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
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