to assign
- verb
- /əˈsaɪn/
- I cannot understand how anyone can assign a value to crypto.
- assign meaning
- assign blame
- assign attributes
Or are you just, you just assigning that title to yourself?
- Or are you just, you just assigning that title to yourself?
- People have just like assigned food to sex.
- and there's no monetary value that you can assign to that. Yes,
- And these qualities were assigned to God in religious texts.
- It's interesting how much value you assign to the task of asking the right questions.
- That's what makes it so difficult for one to easily assign value to natural circumstance.
- So that was the statistical weight that we assigned to configurations of this field.
- So we discover that something is wrong with wheat and we assign the issue to gluten.
- But the thing that I have grabbed is I get to assign meaning to it.
- And that this kind of lack of fiscal responsibility again and all assigned blame to both sides.
- But the climate change summit is not to assign blame or make somebody pay for what's happening.
- And this was a term by Yale that was called, the called was called job crafting, the ability to assign meaning where you see it.
- I actually prefer thinking that just about nobody, frankly, has NPD because most therapists will never assign the diagnosis.
- But we have to understand that there is a value that we assign people when we are mating or dating.
- Inevitably when a person in one of those groups does something bad, even if you're not trying to, you're still going to start assigning it to that group.
- Automatic gender recognition might work well enough most of the time, which is to say, the meanings it assigns might be useful most of the time.
Examples
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But we have to understand that there is a value that we assign people when we are mating or dating.
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It's interesting how much value you assign to the task of asking the right questions.
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But the thing that I have grabbed is I get to assign meaning to it.
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What exercises might you have those students do or readings that you would assign to help them with?
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So we discover that something is wrong with wheat and we assign the issue to gluten.
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Mrs. Charlela assigned us another essay.
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Other common judgments include assigning a letter grade or a festival rating.
Academic text (2011) -
Learn about the power and utility of basic descriptive statistics for assigning meaning to large sets of data.
Academic text (2015) -
The AI had analyzed the morphemes it identified in their speech and assigned probable meaning to the combinations.
Fiction book (1996) -
In our discussion, we need to assign credit to everyone who contributed to the project.
Synonyms
To say that something comes from a person or thing
To publicly say someone is responsible for something
Think that something is caused by a person or thing
To blame a person or thing for something bad, often without proof
To say someone caused or deserves credit for something
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How Attributed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Assign comes from Latin signare 'to mark' and is related to sign, so to assign a work or idea to someone is to mark it as theirs or to give them the credit.