1. (

• delegate ,
• designate ,
• depute ,
• assign

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

2. (

• assign ,
• allot ,
• portion

) give out; "We were assigned new uniforms" ;

3. (

• impute ,
• ascribe ,
• assign ,
• attribute

) attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" ;

4. (

• assign ,
• specify ,
• set_apart

) select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise" ;

5. (

• put ,
• assign

) 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" ;

6. (

• arrogate ,
• assign ,

) make undue claims to having ;

7. (

• assign

) transfer one's right to ;

8. (

• assign ,
• attribute ,

) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class" ;