"assigning" in the noun sense

1. assignment, assigning

the act of distributing something to designated places or persons

"the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum"

"assigning" in the verb sense

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"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

Princeton University "About WordNet®."
WordNet®. Princeton University. 2010.

View WordNet® License