'assign' definitions:

Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) [syn: delegate, designate, depute, assign]

Give out; "We were assigned new uniforms" [syn: assign, allot, portion]

Attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" [syn: impute, ascribe, assign, attribute]

Select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise" [syn: assign, specify, set apart]

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" [syn: put, assign]

Make undue claims to having [syn: arrogate, assign]

Transfer one's right to

Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class" [syn: assign, attribute]