Textual thesaurus for "assign"

(verb) set apart, specify

select something or someone for a specific purpose

The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise

(verb) impute, ascribe, attribute

attribute or credit to

We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare; People impute great cleverness to cats

(verb) attribute

decide as to where something belongs in a scheme

The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class

(verb) put

attribute or give

She put too much emphasis on her the last statement; He put all his efforts into this job; The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story

(verb) allot, portion

give out

We were assigned new uniforms

(verb) arrogate

make undue claims to having

(verb) delegate, depute, designate

give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)