assign

verb assigns · assigning · assigned

1. transitive To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose. to assign a day for trial
2. transitive To appoint or select (someone) for some office. to assign counsel for a prisoner
3. transitive 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.
4. transitive To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
5. transitive To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.
6. transitive To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
7. transitive To give (a value) to a variable. We assign 100 to x.

Similar: earmark, convey

noun assigns

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. obsolete A 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. obsolete An assignment or appointment.
4. obsolete A design or purpose. He aim’d at high designs, and so attain’d / The high assigns to which his spirit aim’d.