assign

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance. obsolete
    — 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. An assignment or appointment. obsolete
  4. A design or purpose. obsolete
    — He aim’d at high designs, and so attain’d / The high assigns to which his spirit aim’d.
动词 v.
  1. To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose. transitive
    — to assign a day for trial
  2. To appoint or select (someone) for some office. transitive
    — to assign counsel for a prisoner
  3. To allot or give (something) as a task. transitive
    — “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. To attribute or sort (something) into categories. transitive
  5. To attribute or sort (something) into categories.; To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex. transitive
  6. To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another. transitive
  7. To give (a value) to a variable. transitive
    — We assign 100 to x.

词形变化

assigns present,singular,third-person assigning participle,present assigned participle,past assigned past assigns plural

词汇关系

近义词
earmark convey
衍生词
assignability assignor misassign nonassigned preassign preassigned reassign unassign unassigned

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-
Proto-Indo-European *-nóm
Proto-Italic *seknom
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Proto-Italic *seknāō
Latin signō
Latin assignōlbor.
Old French assignerbor.
Middle English assignen
English assign
From Middle English assignen, from Old French assigner, asigner, from Latin assignō, from ad- + signō (“mark, sign”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-
Proto-Indo-European *-nóm
Proto-Italic *seknom
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Proto-Italic *seknāō
Latin signō
Latin assignōlbor.
Old French assignerbor.
Middle English assignen
English assign
From Middle English assignen, from Old French assigner, asigner, from Latin assignō, from ad- + signō (“mark, sign”).
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