assignverb/əˈsaɪn/

• 1

  To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.

  • to assign a day for trial
• 2

  To appoint or select (someone) for some office.

  • to assign counsel for a prisoner
• 3

  To allot or give (something) as a task.

  • “I cannot do it, Sir !” was his reply. “I fire into their ranks, and that does as well ; but to single out one among them, and mark him for death, would lie upon my mind afterwards.” The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.
  • He assigned his men to their several posts, talked boldly of maintaining himself against all the troops of Spain, and by his cheerful tone endeavoured to inspire a confidence in others which he was far from feeling himself.
• 4

  To attribute or sort (something) into categories.

• 5

  To attribute or sort (something) into categories.

• 6

  lawTo transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.

• 7

  computingengineeringmathematicsTo give (a value) to a variable.

  • We assign 100 to x.

assignnoun/əˈsaɪn/

• 1

  An assignee.

  • Scrooge knew he was dead ? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise ? Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and his sole mourner.
• 2

  obsoleteA thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

  • The King ſir hath wagerd with him ſix Barbary horſes, againgſt the which hee has impaund as I take it ſix French Rapiers and Poynards, with their aſſignes, as girdle, hanger and ſo.
• 3

  obsoleteAn assignment or appointment.

• 4

  obsoleteA design or purpose.

  • He aim’d at high designs, and so attain’d / The high assigns to which his spirit aim’d.