different between assignment vs chore

English

Etymology

From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement.

Pronunciation

Noun

assignment (countable and uncountable, plural assignments)

1. The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.

   This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.

2. The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.

   We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.

3. An assigned task.

   The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.

4. A position to which someone is assigned.

   Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.

5. (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.

   Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.

6. (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.

   The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.

7. (law) A document that effects this transfer.

   Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.

8. (programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.

Hyponyms

• (programming): augmented assignment

Translations

References

• assignment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology 1

From earlier char, from Middle English charr, charre, cherre (“odd job, turn, occasion, business”), from Old English ?err, ?ierr (“a turn”), from ?ierran (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijan? (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”).

Cognate with Dutch keer (“time; turn; occasion”), German Kehre (“a turn; bend; wind; back-flip; u-turn”). Also related to Saterland Frisian kiere, käire (“to turn”), Old Saxon k?rian, Old High German ch?ran (“to turn”) (German kehren (“to turn”), Dutch keren (“to turn”)). See also char.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA^(key): /t???/
• (General American) enPR: chôr, IPA^(key): /t???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ch?r, IPA^(key): /t?o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /t?o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

chore (plural chores)

1. A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.

Derived terms

• choreful
• choreless
• chorelike
• choresome
• chore wheel

Translations

Verb

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

1. (US, dated) To do chores.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “chore”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Etymology 2

Possibly derived from Romani ?or (“thief”), see also Geordie word chor.

Alternative forms

• chor (Geordie)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA^(key): /t???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ch?r, IPA^(key): /t?o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /t?o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)

2. (Britain, informal) To steal.

Synonyms

• steal (standard English)
• thieve (standard English)
• twoc (Geordie)

Etymology 3

Noun

chore (plural chores)

1. (obsolete) A choir or chorus.
   • 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwood

     On every wall, and sung where e'er I walk. I number these, as being of the chore

Anagrams

• Roche, ocher, ochre, roche

Latin

Noun

chore

1. vocative singular of chorus

Lower Sorbian

Adjective

chore

1. Superseded spelling of chóre.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?x?.r?/

Adjective

chore

1. inflection of chory:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Portuguese

Verb

chore

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of chorar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of chorar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of chorar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of chorar