及物动词

1. 分派（工作）；布置（作业）
If you assign a piece of work to someone, you give them the work to do.

2. 分配;配给
If you assign something to someone, you say that it is for their use.

3. 委派;派往;指派
If someone is assigned to a particular place, group, or person, they are sent there, usually in order to work at that place or for that person.

4. 赋予，给予（功能或价值）
If you assign a particular function or value to someone or something, you say they have it.

1. select something or someone for a specific purpose

e.g. The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise

Synonym: specifyset apart

2. attribute or credit to

e.g. We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare
People impute great cleverness to cats

Synonym: imputeascribeattribute

3. decide as to where something belongs in a scheme

e.g. The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class

Synonym: attribute

4. attribute or give

e.g. 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

Synonym: put

5. transfer one's right to

6. give out

e.g. We were assigned new uniforms

Synonym: allotportion

7. make undue claims to having

Synonym: arrogate

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

Synonym: delegatedesignatedepute