different between assignment vs ration

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

From French ration. Doublet of reason and ratio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ??n/, enPR: r?sh??n

Noun

ration (plural rations)

1. A portion of some limited resource allocated to a person or group.

   • The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it.

Translations

Verb

ration (third-person singular simple present rations, present participle rationing, simple past and past participle rationed)

1. (transitive) To supply with a ration; to limit (someone) to a specific allowance of something.

   We rationed ourselves to three sips of water a day until we were rescued.

2. (transitive) To portion out (especially during a shortage of supply); to limit access to.

   By the third day on the raft, we had to ration our water.

3. (transitive) To restrict (an activity etc.)

   Our present health care system is rationed only to those who can afford it because of unnecessary high cost, lack of insurance coverage by 47 million people, and exorbitant prescription prices.

Derived terms

• deration

Synonyms

• Hooverize

Translations

Anagrams

• Natori, Nortia, Torain, Torian, Triano, Troian, aroint

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rati?nem (accusative of rati?). Compare the inherited raison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.sj??/

Noun

ration f (plural rations)

1. ration

Further reading

• “ration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• trônai

Interlingua

Noun

ration (plural rationes)

1. ratio, proportion