Meaning of assign in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• An assignee.

• A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

• An assignment or appointment.

• A design or purpose.

verb

• To designate or set apart something for some purpose.

  Example: to assign a day for trial

• To appoint or select someone for some office.

  Example: to assign counsel for a prisoner

• To allot or give something as a task.

• To attribute or sort something into categories.

• To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.

• To give (a value) to a variable.

  Example: We assign 100 to x.