英语词汇“assign”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

assignassign /əˈsaɪn/ ●●○ AWL verb [transitive]

ETYMOLOGYassign

Origin: 1300-1400 Old French assigner, from Latin assignare, from ad- to + signare to mark

VERB TABLE

assign

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	assign
	he, she, it	assigns
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	assigned
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have assigned
	he, she, it	has assigned
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had assigned
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will assign
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have assigned

Continuous Form
Present	I	am assigning
	he, she, it	is assigning
	you, we, they	are assigning
Past	I, he, she, it	was assigning
	you, we, they	were assigning
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been assigning
	he, she, it	has been assigning
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been assigning
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be assigning
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been assigning

1to give someone a particular job or make him or her responsible for a particular person or thing: assign somebody to somebody/something a reporter assigned to the Arab World Officer Crane was assigned to the vice squad.assign somebody to do something Madison was assigned to investigate the accident.assign somebody the task/job/duty etc. of doing something Troops have been assigned the task of securing the roads around the city.2to give money, equipment, etc. to someone or to decide it should be used for a particular purpose: be assigned something She was assigned her own bodyguard.assign something to/for something Part of the budget is assigned to research.3to tell someone to go to a particular place as part of a system: assign somebody to something Each of the children will be assigned to a classroom. Patients were assigned to doctors hundreds of miles away.4to give a particular value, place, number, etc. to something: assign something to something A code was assigned to each item.be assigned something Everyone is assigned a Social Security number at birth.