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(Latin: mark, token, indication; a fact, a condition, or a quality)
assign (verb), assigns; assigned; assigning
1. To give someone a job to do or to give someone a task to complete: Mrs. Smart, the teacher, assigned some homework for the students to do after returning home from school.
2. To send someone to work in a particular place or with a particular group of people: The firefighters were assigned to be at the industrial section of the city.
3. To determine that someone or something has a particular quality, name, use, or category: He was assigned a high employee rating based on his high attendance on the job.
4. To put a soldier, military unit, or military material under a particular command or duty: The army garrison and equipment was allocated, or assigned, from the temporary location to another long-term and secure place.
2. To send someone to work in a particular place or with a particular group of people: The firefighters were assigned to be at the industrial section of the city.
3. To determine that someone or something has a particular quality, name, use, or category: He was assigned a high employee rating based on his high attendance on the job.
4. To put a soldier, military unit, or military material under a particular command or duty: The army garrison and equipment was allocated, or assigned, from the temporary location to another long-term and secure place.
assignable (adjective), more assignable, most assignable
1. Capable of something being appointed or allotted: The new houses were assignable to the company's employees who were looking for a place to live close to their jobs.
2. The capacity of something being specified or designated: The assignable reason for Tom's absence was expressed in his letter to the principal of the school.
2. The capacity of something being specified or designated: The assignable reason for Tom's absence was expressed in his letter to the principal of the school.
assignably (adverb), more assignably, most assignably
1. Referring to how something is allocated: The hotel rooms were assignably reserved for the visiting teachers from Tuesday to Wednesday.
2. Concerning how a project or undertaking is given as a task: The homework was to be completed assignably by the students in Mrs. Smart's class.
3. Describing how an object, a fact, a feature is designated or named: Any day in the week can be assignably specified for the board meeting.
2. Concerning how a project or undertaking is given as a task: The homework was to be completed assignably by the students in Mrs. Smart's class.
3. Describing how an object, a fact, a feature is designated or named: Any day in the week can be assignably specified for the board meeting.
1. Any sound that can be identified by listening to its acoustic characteristics; such as, pitch, beats, etc.
2. The audio portion of a television signal.
2. The audio portion of a television signal.
consign (verb), consigns; consigned; consigning
To deliver something to a person's custody, typically in order for it to be sold: Margaret consigned her artistic paintings to the local art gallery.
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