assign

[əˈsaɪn]

Definition:
1. Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person.
2. Give out or allot.
3. Attribute or credit to.
4. Select something or someone for a specific purpose.
5. Attribute or give.

Use 'assign' in a sentence:

1. They might feel angry and assign blame.
2. After building a testing team, assign tests.
3. Under Mr. Harel's system, each business must assign a value to each job.
4. The team leader has assigned tasks to all the groups.
5. Soon they assigned him to a new post.
6. The teacher assigned each of them a holiday task.
7. For Step 1, assign a name to your cluster.
8. Method is available; you cannot assign a file at design time.
9. The decoy effect works because of the way our brains assign value when making choices.
10. They were all edited for gender and other identifying information, so Dutt and her team could assign them a score without knowing the gender of the student.
11. Each of us was assigned a minder, someone who looked after us.
12. Judy, it is my great privilege to officially assign you to the heart of Zootopia.
13. Which methods assign a particular field?
14. I'll do any job I may be assigned to.
15. Instead, you must use assign activities.
16. District administrators say that homework will still be a part of schooling; teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want.
17. British forces have been assigned to help with peacekeeping.
18. Assign the datastores to users.
19. Later in the year, she'll assign them research papers.
20. When teachers assign homework, students usually feel an obligation to do it.
21. Assign your employee to a team.
22. The sergeant assigned him to KP.
23. He assigned her all his land in Ireland.
24. Which judges are assigned to a case is always a bit of a lottery.
25. Assign the fields as shown below.
26. When I taught, I would assign a topic to children that they would write about.
27. Assign a URI mapping context to each page.
28. What's more, grades are not only an educational device but are also part of a screening system to help assign kids to their next class or program.
29. Every year a national plan outlines and assigns special problems for research.
30. So, yes, we assign the room to the new girl.
31. We assign different questions to everyone, and then everyone is responsible for writing the assigned questions.
32. Closely associated with the value they place on individualism, is the importance American's assign to privacy.
33. It's difficult to assign any reason for the failure.
34. We're not trying to assign blame or criticize anyone or call anyone consciously sexist.
35. All sorts of people I found were getting honoraria for various extra duties that they had assigned to them.
36. The state farm assigned the experimental plot to that group.
37. He assigned federal agents to listen in on Martin Luther King's phone calls.
38. Step 4 — Assign an element maturity score.
39. We'd never assign inmates to do that.
40. Influenced by old ideas, some units assign posts according to seniority.
41. When I taught, I would assign a topic to children which they would write about.
42. I was assigned to Troop A of the 10th Cavalry.
43. The selling broker is then required to assign a portion of the commission to the buyer broker.
44. Under the system, each business must assign a value to each job.
45. Did you choose Russia or were you simply assigned there?
46. Assign a different colour to each different type of information.
47. The painting cannot be assigned an exact date.
48. A patient going through acute detox will have an assigned nurse nearby.
49. We have been assigned the two large classrooms.
50. The teacher assigned a different task to each of the children.
51. The teacher assigned each of the children a different task.
52. Assign the letters of the alphabet their numerical values — A equals 1, B equals 2, etc.