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[ verb ] give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)If so , it might be worth_while to assign a future jazz show to a different department - one with enough confidence in the musical material to cut_down on the number of performers and give them a_little room to display their talents . |
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[ verb ] give out
Examples "We were assigned new uniforms" Used in print (Hugh Kelly and Ted Ziehe, "Glossary Lookup Made Easy"...)The first is compiling a list of text forms , assigning an information cell to each , and replacing text occurrences with the information cell assigned to the form of each occurrence . If cell * * f has not previously been assigned as the information cell of a form in the text form list , it is now assigned as the information cell of * * f . If cell * * f has not previously been assigned as the information cell of a form in the text form list , it is now assigned as the information cell of * * f . If * * f was assigned as the information cell for * * f , the routine can detect that * * f is identical to * * f by comparing * * f with the form stored at location * * f . The cell * * f becomes the second information cell in the chain and is assigned as the information cell of * * f . Related terms |
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[ verb ] attribute to a source or cause
Examples "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)We cannot , of_course , assign it any substance . (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)He was oblivious of the form of the object actually being viewed , precisely because he could not assign it to a visual shape , already learned and held in visual memory , as persons of normal vision do . (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)One can take a vase of about 800 B.C. and , without any knowledge of its place_of_origin , venture to assign it to a specific area ; imitation and borrowing of motifs now become ascertainable . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)It is true that his first collage looks more Analytical than Braque 's , which would confirm the date he assigns it . |
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[ verb ] attribute or credit to
Examples "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare" "People impute great cleverness to cats" |
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[ verb ] select something or someone for a specific purpose
Examples "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise" Used in print (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)In the over-all process , it is difficult to assign a `` pure '' role to each constituent of a built detergent formulation ; and , indeed , there is no_more reason to separate the interrelated roles of the active , builder , antiredeposition agent , etc. than there is to assign individual actions to each of the numerous isomers making_up a given commercial organic active . In the over-all process , it is difficult to assign a `` pure '' role to each constituent of a built detergent formulation ; and , indeed , there is no_more reason to separate the interrelated roles of the active , builder , antiredeposition agent , etc. than there is to assign individual actions to each of the numerous isomers making_up a given commercial organic active . Related terms |
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[ verb ] put something on or into (abstractly) assign;
Synonyms Examples "She put 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" Used in print (Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)From the point_of_view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken , and from the point_of_view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; but dominant stress will be assigned to broken only in rather exceptional versions of the sentence . |
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[ verb ] decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
Synonyms Examples "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class" Related terms |
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