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Meaning of assign

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  assign
      v 1: give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a
           task to (a person) [syn: {delegate}, {designate}, {depute},
           {assign}]
      2: give out; "We were assigned new uniforms" [syn: {assign},
         {allot}, {portion}]
      3: attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to
         Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" [syn:
         {impute}, {ascribe}, {assign}, {attribute}]
      4: select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The
         teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
         [syn: {assign}, {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}, {assign}]
      6: make undue claims to having [syn: {arrogate}, {assign}]
      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:
         {assign}, {attribute}]

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