Main entry: assign, set apart, specify
Definition: select something or someone for a specific purpose
Usage: The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise
Main entry: impute, ascribe, assign, attribute
Definition: attribute or credit to
Usage: We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare; People impute great cleverness to cats
Definition: decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
Usage: The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class
Definition: attribute or give
Usage: 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
Main entry: assign
Definition: transfer one's right to
Main entry: assign, allot, portion
Definition: give out
Usage: We were assigned new uniforms
Definition: make undue claims to having
Main entry: delegate, depute, designate, assign
Definition: give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)