Definition of assign in English:

assign

verb əˈsʌɪnəˈsaɪn

[with object]

1Allocate (a job or duty)
分配，分派（工作，职责）
Congress had assigned the task to the agency
国会把那项任务交给了这一机构。
with two objects his leader assigned him this mission
领导派他执行这项任务。
Example sentencesExamples
- Only graduates majoring in movie directing have a chance of being assigned a directing job in one of the approved studios.
- ‘Good,’ he continued, as his mom brought in some more snacks, ‘Lets begin by assigning jobs.’
- For students such as that, I will assign a special job for the summer production.
- Talk about how you can break down the tasks, and assign jobs.
- ‘Ah, but I can assign washing duty,’ she said as she pushed her empty plate towards his direction.
- Some things you need to discuss in the first few meetings include: venue, assigning jobs, creating a name for the festival, and organizing fundraising.
- The Army is assigning active duty liaisons to support all four of the VA's Poly Trauma Centers on a trial basis.
- The point of an internship is to learn something, so you must keep that in mind as you assign the intern duties.
- Once upon a time there were three beautiful girls who went to a writing college, and they were each assigned very hazardous duties.
- The Codae meeting was meant only to assign jobs and check on everyone's status.
- I had also been assigned another mission that day: to find a long-lost pen.
- In practice, it will be able to assign jobs as it sees fit.
- I let everyone wake up on their own time before assigning jobs.
- Instead, he opts to assign the job of piecing together their dialogues to the reader.
- Some of you may be assigned Orientation Duty, which means you show them around.
- He should assign duties that best utilize the abilities of each player.
Synonyms
allocate, allot, give, set
charge with, entrust with
1. 1.1 Appoint (someone) to a job, task, or organization.
  指派，委派（某人）（担任某职务、执行某任务或去某机构）
  she has been assigned to a new job
  她被派去担任新职务了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A new Judge was assigned to his homicide conspiracy case; so he is back at square one.
  I was actually assigned to study journalism and did not choose to be a journalist on my own.
  He was assigned to be a plasterer in a neighbouring community, allowing no time and chance for him to fully tap his talent.
  This morning I was assigned to cover a keynote speech at a conference, the same conference I covered yesterday.
  A person is assigned to complete the task, and the process or approach to reduce the risk is identified.
  Instead, with his movie-making experience, he was assigned to make military training films for pilots.
  I was assigned to make the changes in the song, through some favor called in by a friend long ago.
  Afterwards he was assigned to the 7th United States Cavalry and remained with them until his death.
  He was then assigned to work at a mechanical parts factory in a county.
  I'm also going to post a list of what chores each of you are assigned to.
  I was assigned to a group taught by a New Yorker staff writer of a lovely style.
  With no ensemble or piece to perform in, he was assigned to do solo standup comedy at last year's fundraiser.
  After graduation from the dance school, he was assigned to the Shanghai Ballet Company.
  He'd already given me headaches when I was assigned to cover his visit to York.
  To his chagrin, he's assigned to a desolate base in icy Greenland.
  He was assigned to the daily personal care of the most profoundly disabled member of the house.
  After a vacation in Ireland he was assigned to promotion work in the Diocese of Clonfert until 1964.
  I was assigned to play forward and managed (more by luck than skill) to score two goals in the game.
  I was temporarily assigned to a cubicle that was supposed to be empty for another day.
  The waiter was working for a popular restaurant when he was assigned to a home wedding reception.
  Synonyms
  appoint, promote, delegate, commission, post, nominate, vote, elect, adopt, co-opt
  make, create, name, designate, dub
  decide on for, select for, choose for, install in, induct in, institute in, invest in, ordain in
  Military detail for
2Designate or set (something) aside for a specific purpose.
（为特定目的）指定；拨出，留出
managers happily assign large sums of money to travel budgets
经理们高兴地划出一大笔钱作旅游经费。
Example sentencesExamples
- The virtual interface is then assigned to a specific user or user community.
- ‘We will assign a specific recovery room suite to them and they're the only ones with access to it,’ Siefried said.
- The multiplexer analyzes the complexity from all of them and assigns it appropriately.
- I'm convinced God has assigned a legion of Road-Angels specifically to me.
- The major campus activity was for the campus grants office to assign a grant number and designate budget lines so that payroll and vendor records could be created.
- Increase the number of positive responses to your requests and reduce volunteer burnout and discontentment by assigning a specific term length to each position or task.
- By assigning each group of pages to a specific channel and comparing results in custom channel reports webmasters can work at increasing their AdSense revenue.
- One must understand the importance of assigning an appropriate number of NAIs at the battalion level.
- For those who fail to designate a private money manager, the government bank is assigned by default.
- Another possible EU equivalent to the tenth amendment might be a proposed catalogue of competences assigning policy responsibilities to specific levels of government.
- Caitlin acted as traffic controller, designating the rooms to which the things were assigned.
- You can reprogram the keys to launch different programs, open specific folder or assign URLs.
- Specific streets and roads are assigned for selling specific goods.
- The schedulers assign an appropriate number from within that range and choose an even or odd flight number according to the direction of flight.
- Additionally, it is possible to assign any real-time interrupt service to any specific CPU.
- I feel I am an example of midwife services working well with resources being assigned appropriately.
Synonyms
earmark, appropriate, designate, set aside, set apart, keep, reserve
allot, allocate, apportion
fix, appoint, decide on, determine, specify, stipulate
rare hypothecate
1. 2.1assign something to Attribute something as belonging to.
  把…归属于，把…归因于
  it is difficult to decide whether to assign the victory to Godwin
  很难决定胜利是否属于戈德温。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The map shows the teams in which people actually work, as opposed to those they are assigned to.
  The Prosecution Office assigned the investigation to the National Investigative Service.
  The builder can now afford to assign engineering resources to the project without hedging against lost quoting hours.
  Members are selected at random to perform a kind of virtual jury duty, assigning a score to each comment according to its value.
  Due to poor preservation, it is not possible to assign the present material to one of these species.
  Such an interpreter would attribute beliefs to others and assign meanings to their utterances, but would nevertheless do so on the basis of his own, true, beliefs.
  Following the appeal, the MND assigned the case to the Bureau of Investigation in October and asked the CSBC to suspend the contract last month.
  The permits assign every Chinese citizen to a home district, outside of which they have few rights to welfare benefits, medical care or schooling.
  Prior to the participant arriving, the researcher pseudo-randomly assigned the participant to a particular condition and programmed the software accordingly.
  His societal levels for prehistoric societies are arbitrary at best; he assigns incorrect dates to events; and attributes significance to events that are debatable.
  We assigned approximate percentages to food types according to their importance in the feeding spectrum of each species.
  The patients were assigned to two groups of roughly equal numbers.
  A district court judge later assigned the case to Noelle, a former attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission now in private practice.
  Relative weights are assigned to the various customer attributes.
  As a commander who receives missions and assigns missions to others, I suddenly am not thinking about the missions.
  Last week some of them discovered a remote and unexplored passage in Assynt, a find that affords them the privilege of assigning a name to the new cave.
  The company will maintain patients' confidentiality by assigning a numeric code to the donated tissue.
  However, further investigations are needed before assigning these Mexican specimens to a new status.
  I have assigned numbers to the cases according to the date of occurrence of the accident.
  Imagine if you could assign attributes to any file by speech.
  Synonyms
  ascribe, attribute, put down, set down, accredit, credit, give the credit for, chalk up, impute
  lay on, pin on, blame on, lay at the door of
  connect with, associate with
3Transfer (legal rights or liabilities)
转让（法律权利，债务）
they will ask you to assign your rights against the airline
他们会要求你转让你对航空公司的权利。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Borrower shall not be entitled to assign, transfer or otherwise deal in any way with all or any of its rights, benefits and obligations under this Agreement.
- The inclusion of amalgamation in an assignment would constitute a further restriction on the tenants' common law right to assign without consent.
- The lesson is that we should be careful in assigning property rights in a dynamic setting.
- In general terms, you are assigning the copyright of the photo to the encyclopedia.
- The employer executes a deed of assignment in standard form assigning legal ownership of the policies to each of the employees concerned and the insurers are notified accordingly.
- Copyright rests with the individual photographers and rights are usually assigned for a single reproduction only.
- Presumably, rights under the tenancy could be assigned, but the transfer of burdens would be ruled out by the privity of contract rules.
- No order, nor any part order issued by the Company shall be assigned, sublet or transferred without the prior consent in writing of the Company.
- In the case of physical externalities such as pollution, we can often assign property rights as a way of settling disputes and improving matters.
- We've therefore decided that we will no longer ask authors to assign their copyrights.
- We can then assign rights so as to maximize each individual's freedom, compatible with a like freedom for all.
- Most investors shy away from brownfields because environmental laws assign liability to a broad range of parties, including the present owner.
- Invariably the borrower itself will be expressly prohibited from assigning its rights, notably its right to make further draw-downs.
- Clauses 5, 8 and 9 also assign responsibility and define the basis of liability.
- There needs to be a balance between technological innovation and safety, and this balance will be best served by a balanced principle for assigning liability.
- A further possibility is that the author may be bound by the terms of contract or by contract law to assign the copyright in the work to some other party.
- The single-tax system assigns property rights so as to preserve economic incentives.
- He was about to make an order that the legal title to all the copyrights in the world be assigned to the claimants when the defendants took a second point.
- Courts assign property rights depending on market data.
- The Sponsor has the right to assign such aforesaid rights and licence to its affiliates.
Synonyms
transfer, make over, give, pass, hand over, hand down, convey, consign, alienate
Law demise, devise, attorn

noun əˈsʌɪnəˈsaɪn

Law

this agreement shall be binding upon the parties and their successors and assigns
another term for assignee (sense 1)
Example sentencesExamples
- And, quite suspiciously, he and his assigns have repeatedly refused to hand those documents over to independent investigative authorities to authenticate them.
- The rights and obligations of the Company hereunder shall accrue to its successor and assigns.
- If that seems desirable, consider providing that the lease is binding on the landlord's heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors or assigns.
- He plans to leave in the morning, yet brings his assign, Cassio, to look over his affairs and his wife.
- This Agreement provided that the terms of the agreement would be binding upon the Township and its successors or assigns.

Derivatives

assignable

adjective əˈsʌɪnəb(ə)ləˈsaɪnəb(ə)l

1Able to be allotted to someone or designated for a specific purpose.
he breaks the work down into assignable tasks
1. 1.1 Legally transferable to another person's possession.
Example sentencesExamples
- In this case, the contract specifically provided at paragraph 17 of the purchase agreement that the agreement was binding on the parties, their heirs and executors and assigns thereby confirming that it was assignable.
- What if the right was assigned, but not assignable?
- Other contracts, such as equipment leases, maintenance contracts and the like, may also contain clauses providing for their termination upon assignment, or may not be assumable or assignable.
- your membership is not assignable to any third party

assigner

noun əˈsaɪnəəˈsaɪnər

Law

A person who legally transfers a right or liability to someone else.
a valid assignment of copyright signed by the assignor
Example sentencesExamples
- The parties herein, each individually bind their heirs, assigners, executors and devisees by this agreement.
- UNS designation assigners report immediately to the office of the Unified Numbering System for Metals and Alloys the details of each new assignment for inclusion into the system.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French asigner, assiner, from Latin assignare, from ad- 'to' + signare 'to sign'.

Rhymes

align, benign, brine, chine, cline, combine, condign, confine, consign, dine, divine, dyne, enshrine, entwine, fine, frontline, hardline, interline, intertwine, kine, Klein, line, Main, malign, mine, moline, nine, on-line, opine, outshine, pine, Rhein, Rhine, shine, shrine, sign, sine, spine, spline, stein, Strine, swine, syne, thine, tine, trine, twine, Tyne, underline, undermine, vine, whine, wine

Definition of assign in US English:

assign

verbəˈsaɪnəˈsīn

[with object]

1Allocate (a job or duty)
分配，分派（工作，职责）
Congress assigned the task to the agency
国会把那项任务交给了这一机构。
with two objects his leader assigned him this mission
领导派他执行这项任务。
Example sentencesExamples
- In practice, it will be able to assign jobs as it sees fit.
- The Army is assigning active duty liaisons to support all four of the VA's Poly Trauma Centers on a trial basis.
- Once upon a time there were three beautiful girls who went to a writing college, and they were each assigned very hazardous duties.
- The point of an internship is to learn something, so you must keep that in mind as you assign the intern duties.
- Instead, he opts to assign the job of piecing together their dialogues to the reader.
- Some of you may be assigned Orientation Duty, which means you show them around.
- Only graduates majoring in movie directing have a chance of being assigned a directing job in one of the approved studios.
- ‘Ah, but I can assign washing duty,’ she said as she pushed her empty plate towards his direction.
- Talk about how you can break down the tasks, and assign jobs.
- ‘Good,’ he continued, as his mom brought in some more snacks, ‘Lets begin by assigning jobs.’
- I let everyone wake up on their own time before assigning jobs.
- I had also been assigned another mission that day: to find a long-lost pen.
- He should assign duties that best utilize the abilities of each player.
- For students such as that, I will assign a special job for the summer production.
- Some things you need to discuss in the first few meetings include: venue, assigning jobs, creating a name for the festival, and organizing fundraising.
- The Codae meeting was meant only to assign jobs and check on everyone's status.
Synonyms
allocate, allot, give, set
1. 1.1 Appoint (someone) to a particular job, task, or organization.
  指派，委派（某人）（担任某职务、执行某任务或去某机构）
  she has been assigned to a new job
  她被派去担任新职务了。
  with object and infinitive he was assigned to prosecute the case
  他被指派对那个案子提起诉讼。
  Example sentencesExamples
  After graduation from the dance school, he was assigned to the Shanghai Ballet Company.
  A person is assigned to complete the task, and the process or approach to reduce the risk is identified.
  I was temporarily assigned to a cubicle that was supposed to be empty for another day.
  A new Judge was assigned to his homicide conspiracy case; so he is back at square one.
  After a vacation in Ireland he was assigned to promotion work in the Diocese of Clonfert until 1964.
  I was actually assigned to study journalism and did not choose to be a journalist on my own.
  I'm also going to post a list of what chores each of you are assigned to.
  He'd already given me headaches when I was assigned to cover his visit to York.
  To his chagrin, he's assigned to a desolate base in icy Greenland.
  Instead, with his movie-making experience, he was assigned to make military training films for pilots.
  This morning I was assigned to cover a keynote speech at a conference, the same conference I covered yesterday.
  I was assigned to a group taught by a New Yorker staff writer of a lovely style.
  He was then assigned to work at a mechanical parts factory in a county.
  He was assigned to be a plasterer in a neighbouring community, allowing no time and chance for him to fully tap his talent.
  The waiter was working for a popular restaurant when he was assigned to a home wedding reception.
  I was assigned to make the changes in the song, through some favor called in by a friend long ago.
  I was assigned to play forward and managed (more by luck than skill) to score two goals in the game.
  With no ensemble or piece to perform in, he was assigned to do solo standup comedy at last year's fundraiser.
  He was assigned to the daily personal care of the most profoundly disabled member of the house.
  Afterwards he was assigned to the 7th United States Cavalry and remained with them until his death.
  Synonyms
  appoint, promote, delegate, commission, post, nominate, vote, elect, adopt, co-opt
2Designate or set (something) aside for a specific purpose.
（为特定目的）指定；拨出，留出
managers happily assign large sums of money to travel budgets
经理们高兴地划出一大笔钱作旅游经费。
Example sentencesExamples
- The virtual interface is then assigned to a specific user or user community.
- One must understand the importance of assigning an appropriate number of NAIs at the battalion level.
- The multiplexer analyzes the complexity from all of them and assigns it appropriately.
- Another possible EU equivalent to the tenth amendment might be a proposed catalogue of competences assigning policy responsibilities to specific levels of government.
- ‘We will assign a specific recovery room suite to them and they're the only ones with access to it,’ Siefried said.
- The major campus activity was for the campus grants office to assign a grant number and designate budget lines so that payroll and vendor records could be created.
- Additionally, it is possible to assign any real-time interrupt service to any specific CPU.
- Caitlin acted as traffic controller, designating the rooms to which the things were assigned.
- By assigning each group of pages to a specific channel and comparing results in custom channel reports webmasters can work at increasing their AdSense revenue.
- I'm convinced God has assigned a legion of Road-Angels specifically to me.
- Specific streets and roads are assigned for selling specific goods.
- You can reprogram the keys to launch different programs, open specific folder or assign URLs.
- For those who fail to designate a private money manager, the government bank is assigned by default.
- Increase the number of positive responses to your requests and reduce volunteer burnout and discontentment by assigning a specific term length to each position or task.
- The schedulers assign an appropriate number from within that range and choose an even or odd flight number according to the direction of flight.
- I feel I am an example of midwife services working well with resources being assigned appropriately.
Synonyms
earmark, appropriate, designate, set aside, set apart, keep, reserve
1. 2.1assign something to Attribute something as belonging to.
  把…归属于，把…归因于
  it is difficult to decide whether to assign the victory to Goodwin
  很难决定胜利是否属于戈德温。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The company will maintain patients' confidentiality by assigning a numeric code to the donated tissue.
  Relative weights are assigned to the various customer attributes.
  Last week some of them discovered a remote and unexplored passage in Assynt, a find that affords them the privilege of assigning a name to the new cave.
  However, further investigations are needed before assigning these Mexican specimens to a new status.
  Such an interpreter would attribute beliefs to others and assign meanings to their utterances, but would nevertheless do so on the basis of his own, true, beliefs.
  We assigned approximate percentages to food types according to their importance in the feeding spectrum of each species.
  I have assigned numbers to the cases according to the date of occurrence of the accident.
  Following the appeal, the MND assigned the case to the Bureau of Investigation in October and asked the CSBC to suspend the contract last month.
  Members are selected at random to perform a kind of virtual jury duty, assigning a score to each comment according to its value.
  As a commander who receives missions and assigns missions to others, I suddenly am not thinking about the missions.
  The Prosecution Office assigned the investigation to the National Investigative Service.
  His societal levels for prehistoric societies are arbitrary at best; he assigns incorrect dates to events; and attributes significance to events that are debatable.
  The patients were assigned to two groups of roughly equal numbers.
  Prior to the participant arriving, the researcher pseudo-randomly assigned the participant to a particular condition and programmed the software accordingly.
  The builder can now afford to assign engineering resources to the project without hedging against lost quoting hours.
  A district court judge later assigned the case to Noelle, a former attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission now in private practice.
  Due to poor preservation, it is not possible to assign the present material to one of these species.
  Imagine if you could assign attributes to any file by speech.
  The map shows the teams in which people actually work, as opposed to those they are assigned to.
  The permits assign every Chinese citizen to a home district, outside of which they have few rights to welfare benefits, medical care or schooling.
  Synonyms
  ascribe, attribute, put down, set down, accredit, credit, give the credit for, chalk up, impute
3Transfer (legal rights or liabilities)
转让（法律权利，债务）
they will ask you to assign your rights against the airline
他们会要求你转让你对航空公司的权利。
Example sentencesExamples
- Most investors shy away from brownfields because environmental laws assign liability to a broad range of parties, including the present owner.
- Clauses 5, 8 and 9 also assign responsibility and define the basis of liability.
- Courts assign property rights depending on market data.
- We've therefore decided that we will no longer ask authors to assign their copyrights.
- Presumably, rights under the tenancy could be assigned, but the transfer of burdens would be ruled out by the privity of contract rules.
- The employer executes a deed of assignment in standard form assigning legal ownership of the policies to each of the employees concerned and the insurers are notified accordingly.
- In the case of physical externalities such as pollution, we can often assign property rights as a way of settling disputes and improving matters.
- Invariably the borrower itself will be expressly prohibited from assigning its rights, notably its right to make further draw-downs.
- We can then assign rights so as to maximize each individual's freedom, compatible with a like freedom for all.
- The single-tax system assigns property rights so as to preserve economic incentives.
- Copyright rests with the individual photographers and rights are usually assigned for a single reproduction only.
- A further possibility is that the author may be bound by the terms of contract or by contract law to assign the copyright in the work to some other party.
- He was about to make an order that the legal title to all the copyrights in the world be assigned to the claimants when the defendants took a second point.
- No order, nor any part order issued by the Company shall be assigned, sublet or transferred without the prior consent in writing of the Company.
- In general terms, you are assigning the copyright of the photo to the encyclopedia.
- The Borrower shall not be entitled to assign, transfer or otherwise deal in any way with all or any of its rights, benefits and obligations under this Agreement.
- The lesson is that we should be careful in assigning property rights in a dynamic setting.
- There needs to be a balance between technological innovation and safety, and this balance will be best served by a balanced principle for assigning liability.
- The Sponsor has the right to assign such aforesaid rights and licence to its affiliates.
- The inclusion of amalgamation in an assignment would constitute a further restriction on the tenants' common law right to assign without consent.
Synonyms
transfer, make over, give, pass, hand over, hand down, convey, consign, alienate

nounəˈsaɪnəˈsīn

Law

another term for assignee (sense 1)
Example sentencesExamples
- And, quite suspiciously, he and his assigns have repeatedly refused to hand those documents over to independent investigative authorities to authenticate them.
- If that seems desirable, consider providing that the lease is binding on the landlord's heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors or assigns.
- He plans to leave in the morning, yet brings his assign, Cassio, to look over his affairs and his wife.
- The rights and obligations of the Company hereunder shall accrue to its successor and assigns.
- This Agreement provided that the terms of the agreement would be binding upon the Township and its successors or assigns.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French asigner, assiner, from Latin assignare, from ad- ‘to’ + signare ‘to sign’.

单词	assign
释义	Definition of assign in English: assign verb əˈsʌɪnəˈsaɪn [with object] 1Allocate (a job or duty) 分配，分派（工作，职责） Congress had assigned the task to the agency 国会把那项任务交给了这一机构。 with two objects his leader assigned him this mission 领导派他执行这项任务。 Example sentencesExamples Only graduates majoring in movie directing have a chance of being assigned a directing job in one of the approved studios. ‘Good,’ he continued, as his mom brought in some more snacks, ‘Lets begin by assigning jobs.’ For students such as that, I will assign a special job for the summer production. Talk about how you can break down the tasks, and assign jobs. ‘Ah, but I can assign washing duty,’ she said as she pushed her empty plate towards his direction. Some things you need to discuss in the first few meetings include: venue, assigning jobs, creating a name for the festival, and organizing fundraising. The Army is assigning active duty liaisons to support all four of the VA's Poly Trauma Centers on a trial basis. The point of an internship is to learn something, so you must keep that in mind as you assign the intern duties. Once upon a time there were three beautiful girls who went to a writing college, and they were each assigned very hazardous duties. The Codae meeting was meant only to assign jobs and check on everyone's status. I had also been assigned another mission that day: to find a long-lost pen. In practice, it will be able to assign jobs as it sees fit. I let everyone wake up on their own time before assigning jobs. Instead, he opts to assign the job of piecing together their dialogues to the reader. Some of you may be assigned Orientation Duty, which means you show them around. He should assign duties that best utilize the abilities of each player. Synonyms allocate, allot, give, set charge with, entrust with 1.1 Appoint (someone) to a job, task, or organization. 指派，委派（某人）（担任某职务、执行某任务或去某机构） she has been assigned to a new job 她被派去担任新职务了。 Example sentencesExamples A new Judge was assigned to his homicide conspiracy case; so he is back at square one. I was actually assigned to study journalism and did not choose to be a journalist on my own. He was assigned to be a plasterer in a neighbouring community, allowing no time and chance for him to fully tap his talent. This morning I was assigned to cover a keynote speech at a conference, the same conference I covered yesterday. A person is assigned to complete the task, and the process or approach to reduce the risk is identified. Instead, with his movie-making experience, he was assigned to make military training films for pilots. I was assigned to make the changes in the song, through some favor called in by a friend long ago. Afterwards he was assigned to the 7th United States Cavalry and remained with them until his death. He was then assigned to work at a mechanical parts factory in a county. I'm also going to post a list of what chores each of you are assigned to. I was assigned to a group taught by a New Yorker staff writer of a lovely style. With no ensemble or piece to perform in, he was assigned to do solo standup comedy at last year's fundraiser. After graduation from the dance school, he was assigned to the Shanghai Ballet Company. He'd already given me headaches when I was assigned to cover his visit to York. To his chagrin, he's assigned to a desolate base in icy Greenland. He was assigned to the daily personal care of the most profoundly disabled member of the house. After a vacation in Ireland he was assigned to promotion work in the Diocese of Clonfert until 1964. I was assigned to play forward and managed (more by luck than skill) to score two goals in the game. I was temporarily assigned to a cubicle that was supposed to be empty for another day. The waiter was working for a popular restaurant when he was assigned to a home wedding reception. Synonyms appoint, promote, delegate, commission, post, nominate, vote, elect, adopt, co-opt make, create, name, designate, dub decide on for, select for, choose for, install in, induct in, institute in, invest in, ordain in Military detail for 2Designate or set (something) aside for a specific purpose. （为特定目的）指定；拨出，留出 managers happily assign large sums of money to travel budgets 经理们高兴地划出一大笔钱作旅游经费。 Example sentencesExamples The virtual interface is then assigned to a specific user or user community. ‘We will assign a specific recovery room suite to them and they're the only ones with access to it,’ Siefried said. The multiplexer analyzes the complexity from all of them and assigns it appropriately. I'm convinced God has assigned a legion of Road-Angels specifically to me. The major campus activity was for the campus grants office to assign a grant number and designate budget lines so that payroll and vendor records could be created. Increase the number of positive responses to your requests and reduce volunteer burnout and discontentment by assigning a specific term length to each position or task. By assigning each group of pages to a specific channel and comparing results in custom channel reports webmasters can work at increasing their AdSense revenue. One must understand the importance of assigning an appropriate number of NAIs at the battalion level. For those who fail to designate a private money manager, the government bank is assigned by default. Another possible EU equivalent to the tenth amendment might be a proposed catalogue of competences assigning policy responsibilities to specific levels of government. Caitlin acted as traffic controller, designating the rooms to which the things were assigned. You can reprogram the keys to launch different programs, open specific folder or assign URLs. Specific streets and roads are assigned for selling specific goods. The schedulers assign an appropriate number from within that range and choose an even or odd flight number according to the direction of flight. Additionally, it is possible to assign any real-time interrupt service to any specific CPU. I feel I am an example of midwife services working well with resources being assigned appropriately. Synonyms earmark, appropriate, designate, set aside, set apart, keep, reserve allot, allocate, apportion fix, appoint, decide on, determine, specify, stipulate rare hypothecate 2.1assign something to Attribute something as belonging to. 把…归属于，把…归因于 it is difficult to decide whether to assign the victory to Godwin 很难决定胜利是否属于戈德温。 Example sentencesExamples The map shows the teams in which people actually work, as opposed to those they are assigned to. The Prosecution Office assigned the investigation to the National Investigative Service. The builder can now afford to assign engineering resources to the project without hedging against lost quoting hours. Members are selected at random to perform a kind of virtual jury duty, assigning a score to each comment according to its value. Due to poor preservation, it is not possible to assign the present material to one of these species. Such an interpreter would attribute beliefs to others and assign meanings to their utterances, but would nevertheless do so on the basis of his own, true, beliefs. Following the appeal, the MND assigned the case to the Bureau of Investigation in October and asked the CSBC to suspend the contract last month. The permits assign every Chinese citizen to a home district, outside of which they have few rights to welfare benefits, medical care or schooling. Prior to the participant arriving, the researcher pseudo-randomly assigned the participant to a particular condition and programmed the software accordingly. His societal levels for prehistoric societies are arbitrary at best; he assigns incorrect dates to events; and attributes significance to events that are debatable. We assigned approximate percentages to food types according to their importance in the feeding spectrum of each species. The patients were assigned to two groups of roughly equal numbers. A district court judge later assigned the case to Noelle, a former attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission now in private practice. Relative weights are assigned to the various customer attributes. As a commander who receives missions and assigns missions to others, I suddenly am not thinking about the missions. Last week some of them discovered a remote and unexplored passage in Assynt, a find that affords them the privilege of assigning a name to the new cave. The company will maintain patients' confidentiality by assigning a numeric code to the donated tissue. However, further investigations are needed before assigning these Mexican specimens to a new status. I have assigned numbers to the cases according to the date of occurrence of the accident. Imagine if you could assign attributes to any file by speech. Synonyms ascribe, attribute, put down, set down, accredit, credit, give the credit for, chalk up, impute lay on, pin on, blame on, lay at the door of connect with, associate with 3Transfer (legal rights or liabilities) 转让（法律权利，债务） they will ask you to assign your rights against the airline 他们会要求你转让你对航空公司的权利。 Example sentencesExamples The Borrower shall not be entitled to assign, transfer or otherwise deal in any way with all or any of its rights, benefits and obligations under this Agreement. The inclusion of amalgamation in an assignment would constitute a further restriction on the tenants' common law right to assign without consent. The lesson is that we should be careful in assigning property rights in a dynamic setting. In general terms, you are assigning the copyright of the photo to the encyclopedia. The employer executes a deed of assignment in standard form assigning legal ownership of the policies to each of the employees concerned and the insurers are notified accordingly. Copyright rests with the individual photographers and rights are usually assigned for a single reproduction only. Presumably, rights under the tenancy could be assigned, but the transfer of burdens would be ruled out by the privity of contract rules. No order, nor any part order issued by the Company shall be assigned, sublet or transferred without the prior consent in writing of the Company. In the case of physical externalities such as pollution, we can often assign property rights as a way of settling disputes and improving matters. We've therefore decided that we will no longer ask authors to assign their copyrights. We can then assign rights so as to maximize each individual's freedom, compatible with a like freedom for all. Most investors shy away from brownfields because environmental laws assign liability to a broad range of parties, including the present owner. Invariably the borrower itself will be expressly prohibited from assigning its rights, notably its right to make further draw-downs. Clauses 5, 8 and 9 also assign responsibility and define the basis of liability. There needs to be a balance between technological innovation and safety, and this balance will be best served by a balanced principle for assigning liability. A further possibility is that the author may be bound by the terms of contract or by contract law to assign the copyright in the work to some other party. The single-tax system assigns property rights so as to preserve economic incentives. He was about to make an order that the legal title to all the copyrights in the world be assigned to the claimants when the defendants took a second point. Courts assign property rights depending on market data. The Sponsor has the right to assign such aforesaid rights and licence to its affiliates. Synonyms transfer, make over, give, pass, hand over, hand down, convey, consign, alienate Law demise, devise, attorn noun əˈsʌɪnəˈsaɪn Law this agreement shall be binding upon the parties and their successors and assigns another term for assignee (sense 1) Example sentencesExamples And, quite suspiciously, he and his assigns have repeatedly refused to hand those documents over to independent investigative authorities to authenticate them. The rights and obligations of the Company hereunder shall accrue to its successor and assigns. If that seems desirable, consider providing that the lease is binding on the landlord's heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors or assigns. He plans to leave in the morning, yet brings his assign, Cassio, to look over his affairs and his wife. This Agreement provided that the terms of the agreement would be binding upon the Township and its successors or assigns. Derivatives assignable adjective əˈsʌɪnəb(ə)ləˈsaɪnəb(ə)l 1Able to be allotted to someone or designated for a specific purpose. he breaks the work down into assignable tasks 1.1 Legally transferable to another person's possession. Example sentencesExamples In this case, the contract specifically provided at paragraph 17 of the purchase agreement that the agreement was binding on the parties, their heirs and executors and assigns thereby confirming that it was assignable. What if the right was assigned, but not assignable? Other contracts, such as equipment leases, maintenance contracts and the like, may also contain clauses providing for their termination upon assignment, or may not be assumable or assignable. your membership is not assignable to any third party assigner noun əˈsaɪnəəˈsaɪnər Law A person who legally transfers a right or liability to someone else. a valid assignment of copyright signed by the assignor Example sentencesExamples The parties herein, each individually bind their heirs, assigners, executors and devisees by this agreement. UNS designation assigners report immediately to the office of the Unified Numbering System for Metals and Alloys the details of each new assignment for inclusion into the system. Origin Middle English: from Old French asigner, assiner, from Latin assignare, from ad- 'to' + signare 'to sign'. Rhymes align, benign, brine, chine, cline, combine, condign, confine, consign, dine, divine, dyne, enshrine, entwine, fine, frontline, hardline, interline, intertwine, kine, Klein, line, Main, malign, mine, moline, nine, on-line, opine, outshine, pine, Rhein, Rhine, shine, shrine, sign, sine, spine, spline, stein, Strine, swine, syne, thine, tine, trine, twine, Tyne, underline, undermine, vine, whine, wine Definition of assign in US English: assign verbəˈsaɪnəˈsīn [with object] 1Allocate (a job or duty) 分配，分派（工作，职责） Congress assigned the task to the agency 国会把那项任务交给了这一机构。 with two objects his leader assigned him this mission 领导派他执行这项任务。 Example sentencesExamples In practice, it will be able to assign jobs as it sees fit. The Army is assigning active duty liaisons to support all four of the VA's Poly Trauma Centers on a trial basis. Once upon a time there were three beautiful girls who went to a writing college, and they were each assigned very hazardous duties. The point of an internship is to learn something, so you must keep that in mind as you assign the intern duties. Instead, he opts to assign the job of piecing together their dialogues to the reader. Some of you may be assigned Orientation Duty, which means you show them around. Only graduates majoring in movie directing have a chance of being assigned a directing job in one of the approved studios. ‘Ah, but I can assign washing duty,’ she said as she pushed her empty plate towards his direction. Talk about how you can break down the tasks, and assign jobs. ‘Good,’ he continued, as his mom brought in some more snacks, ‘Lets begin by assigning jobs.’ I let everyone wake up on their own time before assigning jobs. I had also been assigned another mission that day: to find a long-lost pen. He should assign duties that best utilize the abilities of each player. For students such as that, I will assign a special job for the summer production. Some things you need to discuss in the first few meetings include: venue, assigning jobs, creating a name for the festival, and organizing fundraising. The Codae meeting was meant only to assign jobs and check on everyone's status. Synonyms allocate, allot, give, set 1.1 Appoint (someone) to a particular job, task, or organization. 指派，委派（某人）（担任某职务、执行某任务或去某机构） she has been assigned to a new job 她被派去担任新职务了。 with object and infinitive he was assigned to prosecute the case 他被指派对那个案子提起诉讼。 Example sentencesExamples After graduation from the dance school, he was assigned to the Shanghai Ballet Company. A person is assigned to complete the task, and the process or approach to reduce the risk is identified. I was temporarily assigned to a cubicle that was supposed to be empty for another day. A new Judge was assigned to his homicide conspiracy case; so he is back at square one. After a vacation in Ireland he was assigned to promotion work in the Diocese of Clonfert until 1964. I was actually assigned to study journalism and did not choose to be a journalist on my own. I'm also going to post a list of what chores each of you are assigned to. He'd already given me headaches when I was assigned to cover his visit to York. To his chagrin, he's assigned to a desolate base in icy Greenland. Instead, with his movie-making experience, he was assigned to make military training films for pilots. This morning I was assigned to cover a keynote speech at a conference, the same conference I covered yesterday. I was assigned to a group taught by a New Yorker staff writer of a lovely style. He was then assigned to work at a mechanical parts factory in a county. He was assigned to be a plasterer in a neighbouring community, allowing no time and chance for him to fully tap his talent. The waiter was working for a popular restaurant when he was assigned to a home wedding reception. I was assigned to make the changes in the song, through some favor called in by a friend long ago. I was assigned to play forward and managed (more by luck than skill) to score two goals in the game. With no ensemble or piece to perform in, he was assigned to do solo standup comedy at last year's fundraiser. He was assigned to the daily personal care of the most profoundly disabled member of the house. Afterwards he was assigned to the 7th United States Cavalry and remained with them until his death. Synonyms appoint, promote, delegate, commission, post, nominate, vote, elect, adopt, co-opt 2Designate or set (something) aside for a specific purpose. （为特定目的）指定；拨出，留出 managers happily assign large sums of money to travel budgets 经理们高兴地划出一大笔钱作旅游经费。 Example sentencesExamples The virtual interface is then assigned to a specific user or user community. One must understand the importance of assigning an appropriate number of NAIs at the battalion level. The multiplexer analyzes the complexity from all of them and assigns it appropriately. Another possible EU equivalent to the tenth amendment might be a proposed catalogue of competences assigning policy responsibilities to specific levels of government. ‘We will assign a specific recovery room suite to them and they're the only ones with access to it,’ Siefried said. The major campus activity was for the campus grants office to assign a grant number and designate budget lines so that payroll and vendor records could be created. Additionally, it is possible to assign any real-time interrupt service to any specific CPU. Caitlin acted as traffic controller, designating the rooms to which the things were assigned. By assigning each group of pages to a specific channel and comparing results in custom channel reports webmasters can work at increasing their AdSense revenue. I'm convinced God has assigned a legion of Road-Angels specifically to me. Specific streets and roads are assigned for selling specific goods. You can reprogram the keys to launch different programs, open specific folder or assign URLs. For those who fail to designate a private money manager, the government bank is assigned by default. Increase the number of positive responses to your requests and reduce volunteer burnout and discontentment by assigning a specific term length to each position or task. The schedulers assign an appropriate number from within that range and choose an even or odd flight number according to the direction of flight. I feel I am an example of midwife services working well with resources being assigned appropriately. Synonyms earmark, appropriate, designate, set aside, set apart, keep, reserve 2.1assign something to Attribute something as belonging to. 把…归属于，把…归因于 it is difficult to decide whether to assign the victory to Goodwin 很难决定胜利是否属于戈德温。 Example sentencesExamples The company will maintain patients' confidentiality by assigning a numeric code to the donated tissue. Relative weights are assigned to the various customer attributes. Last week some of them discovered a remote and unexplored passage in Assynt, a find that affords them the privilege of assigning a name to the new cave. However, further investigations are needed before assigning these Mexican specimens to a new status. Such an interpreter would attribute beliefs to others and assign meanings to their utterances, but would nevertheless do so on the basis of his own, true, beliefs. We assigned approximate percentages to food types according to their importance in the feeding spectrum of each species. I have assigned numbers to the cases according to the date of occurrence of the accident. Following the appeal, the MND assigned the case to the Bureau of Investigation in October and asked the CSBC to suspend the contract last month. Members are selected at random to perform a kind of virtual jury duty, assigning a score to each comment according to its value. As a commander who receives missions and assigns missions to others, I suddenly am not thinking about the missions. The Prosecution Office assigned the investigation to the National Investigative Service. His societal levels for prehistoric societies are arbitrary at best; he assigns incorrect dates to events; and attributes significance to events that are debatable. The patients were assigned to two groups of roughly equal numbers. Prior to the participant arriving, the researcher pseudo-randomly assigned the participant to a particular condition and programmed the software accordingly. The builder can now afford to assign engineering resources to the project without hedging against lost quoting hours. A district court judge later assigned the case to Noelle, a former attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission now in private practice. Due to poor preservation, it is not possible to assign the present material to one of these species. Imagine if you could assign attributes to any file by speech. The map shows the teams in which people actually work, as opposed to those they are assigned to. The permits assign every Chinese citizen to a home district, outside of which they have few rights to welfare benefits, medical care or schooling. Synonyms ascribe, attribute, put down, set down, accredit, credit, give the credit for, chalk up, impute 3Transfer (legal rights or liabilities) 转让（法律权利，债务） they will ask you to assign your rights against the airline 他们会要求你转让你对航空公司的权利。 Example sentencesExamples Most investors shy away from brownfields because environmental laws assign liability to a broad range of parties, including the present owner. Clauses 5, 8 and 9 also assign responsibility and define the basis of liability. Courts assign property rights depending on market data. We've therefore decided that we will no longer ask authors to assign their copyrights. Presumably, rights under the tenancy could be assigned, but the transfer of burdens would be ruled out by the privity of contract rules. The employer executes a deed of assignment in standard form assigning legal ownership of the policies to each of the employees concerned and the insurers are notified accordingly. In the case of physical externalities such as pollution, we can often assign property rights as a way of settling disputes and improving matters. Invariably the borrower itself will be expressly prohibited from assigning its rights, notably its right to make further draw-downs. We can then assign rights so as to maximize each individual's freedom, compatible with a like freedom for all. The single-tax system assigns property rights so as to preserve economic incentives. Copyright rests with the individual photographers and rights are usually assigned for a single reproduction only. A further possibility is that the author may be bound by the terms of contract or by contract law to assign the copyright in the work to some other party. He was about to make an order that the legal title to all the copyrights in the world be assigned to the claimants when the defendants took a second point. No order, nor any part order issued by the Company shall be assigned, sublet or transferred without the prior consent in writing of the Company. In general terms, you are assigning the copyright of the photo to the encyclopedia. The Borrower shall not be entitled to assign, transfer or otherwise deal in any way with all or any of its rights, benefits and obligations under this Agreement. The lesson is that we should be careful in assigning property rights in a dynamic setting. There needs to be a balance between technological innovation and safety, and this balance will be best served by a balanced principle for assigning liability. The Sponsor has the right to assign such aforesaid rights and licence to its affiliates. The inclusion of amalgamation in an assignment would constitute a further restriction on the tenants' common law right to assign without consent. Synonyms transfer, make over, give, pass, hand over, hand down, convey, consign, alienate nounəˈsaɪnəˈsīn Law another term for assignee (sense 1) Example sentencesExamples And, quite suspiciously, he and his assigns have repeatedly refused to hand those documents over to independent investigative authorities to authenticate them. If that seems desirable, consider providing that the lease is binding on the landlord's heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, successors or assigns. He plans to leave in the morning, yet brings his assign, Cassio, to look over his affairs and his wife. The rights and obligations of the Company hereunder shall accrue to its successor and assigns. This Agreement provided that the terms of the agreement would be binding upon the Township and its successors or assigns. Origin Middle English: from Old French asigner, assiner, from Latin assignare, from ad- ‘to’ + signare ‘to sign’.
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