Assign
verb
To give someone a particular job or role.
The teacher will assign each student a partner for the project.
Often appears as...
- assign a task
- assign a role
verb
To decide on a time or a place for something.
He assigned a date for the meeting earlier than expected.
Often appears as...
- assign a date
- assign a location
verb
To attribute something to someone.
They assigned responsibility for the accident to the second driver.
Often appears as...
- assign blame
- assign responsibility
verb
To give a value to a variable.
In the programming assignment, you need to assign the variable x to 10.
Often appears as...
- assign a variable
- assign a value
verb
To transfer rights or property.
She assigned her half of the company to her son.
Often appears as...
- assign rights
- assign property
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Formal
verb
To give someone a particular job or role.
The teacher will assign each student a partner for the project.
Often appears as...
- assign a task
- assign a role
verb
To decide on a time or a place for something.
He assigned a date for the meeting earlier than expected.
Often appears as...
- assign a date
- assign a location
verb
To attribute something to someone.
They assigned responsibility for the accident to the second driver.
Often appears as...
- assign blame
- assign responsibility
verb
To give a value to a variable.
In the programming assignment, you need to assign the variable x to 10.
Often appears as...
- assign a variable
- assign a value
verb
To transfer rights or property.
She assigned her half of the company to her son.
Often appears as...
- assign rights
- assign property
Usage tips
Formal
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Pro Tip 1/2Professional Context
Used when giving tasks in professional settings like workplaces or schools.
The manager assigned the new project to her team.
Pro Tip 2/2Directive Verb
Often used to command or instruct someone to carry out a specific job or task.
Please assign specific duties for the event.
Pro Tip 1/2Professional Context
Used when giving tasks in professional settings like workplaces or schools.
The manager assigned the new project to her team.
Pro Tip 2/2Directive Verb
Often used to command or instruct someone to carry out a specific job or task.
Please assign specific duties for the event.
Pro Tip 1/2Professional Context
Used when giving tasks in professional settings like workplaces or schools.
The manager assigned the new project to her team.
Pro Tip 2/2Directive Verb
Often used to command or instruct someone to carry out a specific job or task.
Please assign specific duties for the event.
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What is the Heisenberg...
We can clearly identify features of the wave pattern as a whole, most importantly, its wavelength, which is the distance between two neighboring peaks, or two neighboring valleys. But we can't assign it a single position. It has a good probability of being in lots of different places.
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The science of...
wore the same T-shirts for three nights. After male volunteers were randomly assigned to smell either one of the worn shirts, or a new unworn one, saliva samples showed an increase in testosterone in those who had smelled a shirt worn by an ovulating woman. Such a testosterone boost
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How high can you count...
This won't allow us to represent powers of ten, but it's perfect for the counting system that uses powers of two, otherwise known as binary. In binary, each position has double the value of the previous one, so we can assign our fingers values of one, two, four, eight,
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The Infinite Hotel...
of prime numbers. So, to accomplish this seemingly impossible task of finding infinite beds for infinite buses of infinite weary travelers, the night manager assigns every current guest to the first prime number, 2, raised to the power of their current room number.
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Your elusive creative...
when I get really psyched out about that is don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case
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The paradox of choice PIPE...
All of these are consuming questions. And they're going to answer these questions, whether or not it means not doing all the work I assign and not getting a good grade in my courses. And indeed they should. These are important questions to answer. Work.
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The Battle for the Soul...
detective who gets assigned a strange new partner a robot i've always wanted a robot partner and now through the magic of text to speech and radio drama hello i can finally have one my name is natalie i'm here to help you host the show hi
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Can we create new senses...
Now, amazingly, the brain is really good at taking in these signals and extracting patterns and assigning meaning, so that it takes this inner cosmos and puts together a story of this, your subjective world. But here's the key
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Finding landmines using...
and exploratory behavior plus their reactions to various unfamiliar situations provides deep clues into the behavioral tendencies of these potential soldier rats just as the army test soldiers to assign them the regiments
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Budgie Talks To Owner To...
having a name may not be as unnatural as it seems nice disco and I know it I'm disco and I know it wild parrots have been shown to assign
Video examples
What is the Heisenberg...
We can clearly identify features of the wave pattern as a whole, most importantly, its wavelength, which is the distance between two neighboring peaks, or two neighboring valleys. But we can't assign it a single position. It has a good probability of being in lots of different places.
Video examples
The science of...
wore the same T-shirts for three nights. After male volunteers were randomly assigned to smell either one of the worn shirts, or a new unworn one, saliva samples showed an increase in testosterone in those who had smelled a shirt worn by an ovulating woman. Such a testosterone boost
Video examples
How high can you count...
This won't allow us to represent powers of ten, but it's perfect for the counting system that uses powers of two, otherwise known as binary. In binary, each position has double the value of the previous one, so we can assign our fingers values of one, two, four, eight,
Video examples
The Infinite Hotel...
of prime numbers. So, to accomplish this seemingly impossible task of finding infinite beds for infinite buses of infinite weary travelers, the night manager assigns every current guest to the first prime number, 2, raised to the power of their current room number.
Video examples
Your elusive creative...
when I get really psyched out about that is don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be. If your job is to dance, do your dance. If the divine, cockeyed genius assigned to your case
Video examples
The paradox of choice PIPE...
All of these are consuming questions. And they're going to answer these questions, whether or not it means not doing all the work I assign and not getting a good grade in my courses. And indeed they should. These are important questions to answer. Work.
Video examples
The Battle for the Soul...
detective who gets assigned a strange new partner a robot i've always wanted a robot partner and now through the magic of text to speech and radio drama hello i can finally have one my name is natalie i'm here to help you host the show hi
Video examples
Can we create new senses...
Now, amazingly, the brain is really good at taking in these signals and extracting patterns and assigning meaning, so that it takes this inner cosmos and puts together a story of this, your subjective world. But here's the key
Video examples
Finding landmines using...
and exploratory behavior plus their reactions to various unfamiliar situations provides deep clues into the behavioral tendencies of these potential soldier rats just as the army test soldiers to assign them the regiments
Video examples
Budgie Talks To Owner To...
having a name may not be as unnatural as it seems nice disco and I know it I'm disco and I know it wild parrots have been shown to assign
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Michaela Coel
We live in a world where if you're white, an upper-class male of extreme privilege, and able-bodied, and you're nothing that takes you away from that norm, then you're going to have - then the world will not assign you problems because of what you are. That is actually the world we live in.
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Tracy K. Smith
American Poet
Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.
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Jill Lepore
American Historian
As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.
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Mariette Hartley
American Actress
I don't think anyone thought showbiz people know anything. I would suggest interview subjects, were told they weren't such great ideas, and then they would be assigned to somebody else. I wasn't given anything to do. I felt like the highest-paid dress extra in the world.
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John Hagel III
American Businessman
Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.
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Murray Gell-Mann
American Physicist
Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.
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Victor J. Glover
God assigned me a few really important things: this life, this vessel, but also my wife and that relationship, the two of us becoming one and then the family that we've grown with our four daughters.
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Ralph Marston
American Writer
Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.
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Mac Thornberry
American Politician
If the men and women who protect the country are to succeed in the missions they are assigned, we simply must invest more in defense.
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Linda Tripp
American Celebrity
Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.
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Michaela Coel
We live in a world where if you're white, an upper-class male of extreme privilege, and able-bodied, and you're nothing that takes you away from that norm, then you're going to have - then the world will not assign you problems because of what you are. That is actually the world we live in.
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Tracy K. Smith
American Poet
Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we are asked to justify ourselves to the outside world. It certainly isn't the language to which commercial value has been assigned.
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Jill Lepore
American Historian
As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.
Quote examples
Mariette Hartley
American Actress
I don't think anyone thought showbiz people know anything. I would suggest interview subjects, were told they weren't such great ideas, and then they would be assigned to somebody else. I wasn't given anything to do. I felt like the highest-paid dress extra in the world.
Quote examples
John Hagel III
American Businessman
Executives will talk about the importance of passion, but what they really mean is finding somebody who will work nights and weekends on their assigned task but predictably and reliably follow orders and just work harder.
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Murray Gell-Mann
American Physicist
Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality.
Quote examples
Victor J. Glover
God assigned me a few really important things: this life, this vessel, but also my wife and that relationship, the two of us becoming one and then the family that we've grown with our four daughters.
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Ralph Marston
American Writer
Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.
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Mac Thornberry
American Politician
If the men and women who protect the country are to succeed in the missions they are assigned, we simply must invest more in defense.
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Linda Tripp
American Celebrity
Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.
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