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assign
English
Etymology
From Middle English assignen, from Old French assigner, asigner, from Latin assign?, from ad- + sign? (“mark, sign”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??sa?n/
- Hyphenation: as?sign
- Rhymes: -a?n
Verb
assign (third-person singular simple present assigns, present participle assigning, simple past and past participle assigned)
- (transitive) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
- (transitive) To appoint or select someone for some office.
- (transitive) To allot or give something as a task.
- Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- (transitive) To attribute or sort something into categories.
- (transitive, law) To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
- (transitive, programming) To give (a value) to a variable.
Synonyms
- (set apart something for some purpose): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
- (transfer property): consign, convey; see also Thesaurus:transfer
Derived terms
- assignment
- assignable
- assignation
Translations
Noun
assign (plural assigns)
- An assignee.
- (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
- (obsolete) An assignment or appointment.
- (obsolete) A design or purpose.
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appropriate
English
Etymology
From Middle English appropriaten, borrowed from Latin appropriatus, past participle of approprio (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + proprio (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”).
Pronunciation
- Adjective
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA(key): /??p???.p?i?.?t/, /??p???.p?i?.?t/
- (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA(key): /??p?o?.p?i.?t/, /??p?o?.p?i.?t/
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p???.p?i?.e?t/
- (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, IPA(key): /??p?o?.p?i.e?t/
Adjective
appropriate (comparative more appropriate, superlative most appropriate)
- Suitable or fit; proper.
- 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster
- in its strict and appropriate meaning
- 1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome
- appropriate acts of divine worship
- 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
Synonyms
- (suited for): apt, felicitous, fitting, suitable; see also Thesaurus:suitable
Antonyms
- (all senses): inappropriate
Derived terms
- appropriateness
Related terms
- proper
- property
Translations
Verb
appropriate (third-person singular simple present appropriates, present participle appropriating, simple past and past participle appropriated)
- (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 67:
- Under the towers were a number of gloomy subterraneous apartments with vaulted roofs, the use of which imagination was left to guess, and could only appropriate to punishment and horror.
- 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity
- Were we to take a portion of the skin, and contemplate its exquisite sensibility, so finely appropriated […] we should have no occasion to draw our argument, for the twentieth time, from the structure of the eye or the ear.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 67:
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"
- “I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.
- 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"
- (transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (to take to oneself): help oneself, impropriate; see also Thesaurus:take or Thesaurus:steal
- (to set apart for): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
Translations
Further reading
- appropriate at OneLook Dictionary Search
- appropriate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Italian
Adjective
appropriate f pl
- feminine plural of appropriato
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