- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Pronunciation
- 1.3.1 Synonyms
- 1.3.2 Derived terms
- 1.3.3 Translations

English [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ].
From Middle English assignen , from Old French assigner , asigner , from Latin assignō , from ad- + signō ( “ mark, sign ” ) .
Pronunciation [ edit ]
- IPA ( key ) : /əˈsaɪn/
- Hyphenation: as‧sign
- Rhymes: -aɪn
Verb [ edit ]
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 . to assign a day for trial
- ( transitive ) To appoint or select (someone) for some office . to assign counsel for a prisoner
- 1829 , Robert Southey , Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society , volume I, London: John Murray, page 210 : “I cannot do it, Sir !” was his reply. “I fire into their ranks, and that does as well ; but to single out one among them, and mark him for death, would lie upon my mind afterwards.” The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned.
- 1857 , William Hickling Prescott , “War with France”, in History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain , volume I, new edition, London: G. Routledge & Co., page 116 : He assigned his men to their several posts, talked boldly of maintaining himself against all the troops of Spain, and by his cheerful tone endeavoured to inspire a confidence in others which he was far from feeling himself.
- 1910 , Emerson Hough , chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise , Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company , OCLC 639762314 : 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.
- ( LGBT ) To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex .
- ( transitive , law ) To transfer ( property , a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
- ( transitive , programming ) To give (a value) to a variable . We assign 100 to x.
Synonyms [ edit ]
- ( set apart something for some purpose ) : allocate , earmark ; see also Thesaurus:set apart
- ( transfer property ) : consign , convey ; see also Thesaurus:transfer
Derived terms [ edit ]
- assignation
Translations [ edit ]
- Esperanto: asigni
- Finnish: valita (fi) , määrätä (fi) , nimittää (fi)
- French: désigner (fr)
- Galician: asignar
- German: zuweisen (de)
- Hungarian: ( to select ) kijelöl (hu) , kiválaszt (hu) , ( to determine ) megszab (hu) , megállapít (hu) , meghatároz (hu)
- Ido: asignar (io)
- Italian: assegnare (it) , accantonare (it)
- Japanese: 割り当てる ( わりあてる, wariateru )
- Maori: kopou , pare
- Polish: wyznaczać (pl) impf , wyznaczyć (pl) pf , asygnować impf ( money , literary ) , wyasygnować pf ( money , literary )
- Portuguese: designar (pt) , atribuir (pt)
- Romanian: atribui (ro) , destina (ro)
- Russian: назнача́ть (ru) impf ( naznačátʹ ) , назна́чить (ru) pf ( naznáčitʹ ) , определя́ть (ru) impf ( opredeljátʹ ) , определи́ть (ru) pf ( opredelítʹ )
- Sardinian: Logudorese: assinzare
- Sassarese: assignà
- Spanish: asignar (es)
- Ukrainian: призначати ( pryznačaty ) , визначати ( vyznačaty )
Noun [ edit ]
assign ( plural assigns )
- 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens , “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas , London: Chapman & Hall , [ … ] , OCLC 55746801 , page 2 : Scrooge knew he was dead ? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise ? Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend and his sole mourner.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare , The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: [ … ] (Second Quarto), London: [ … ] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] [ … ] , published 1604, OCLC 760858814 , [Act V, scene ii]: The King ſir hath wagerd with him ſix Barbary horſes, againgſt the which hee has impaund as I take it ſix French Rapiers and Poynards, with their aſſignes, as girdle, hanger and ſo.
- ( obsolete ) An assignment or appointment .
- 1609 , John Ford , “Fame's Memorial: An Elegy upon the Earl of Devonshire”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name) , page 9 : He aim’d at high designs, and so attain’d / The high assigns to which his spirit aim’d.

Multiple Assignment
Multiple assignment takes the form ' string ' =: value (or ' string ' =. value ).
The string is broken into words, each of which must be a valid name. The names may be a mixture of locatives and non-locatives. Each item of the value is assigned to the corresponding name, with one level of boxing removed .
If there is only one name in the string , the value is not unboxed.
Having the values boxed allows you to assign dissimilar values in one assignment. You can link a number of values using val0 ; val1 ; val2... and then assign them to individual names.
The number of items of value must equal the number of names, unless value is an atom, in which case it is replicated to match the number of names.
Note: This works also
It works because "removing a level of boxing" from an unboxed list is a valid thing to do (it's a no-op ).
If you want to assign the entire list 3 4 to both a and b , then make the list into an atom by boxing it
AR Assignment
AR assignment is a variant of multiple assignment, activated when the first character of string is the back-quote ` . The items of value must be atomic representations (ARs), and each AR is converted to a value before being assigned to the corresponding name.
The easiest way to produce an AR is with Tie u`v which produces the ARs of verbs u and v .
AR assignment is most often used to assign multiple names with verb values:
Indirect Assignment
Indirect assignment takes the form ( nameexpr ) =: value . The nameexpr , when evaluated, must produce either a list of boxed names or a string suitable as the string in multiple or AR assignment. The items of value are assigned to the names as in multiple assignment.
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Restrict Contact Assignment
At times you will want to:
- define sets of roles that can be assigned to different activities
- define sets of individuals that have permission to assign contacts to activities
Both these objectives can be achieved by using the Restrict Contact Assignment settings on the Level 2 Type

- Restrict Contact Assignment by Contact (Level 2 only) - Allows you to restrict contact assignment for this Level 2 Type to named contacts.
- Restrict Contact Assignment by Role (Level 2 only) - Allows you to define which contact Roles can be assigned to this Level 2 Type.
- Restrict Contact Assignment Role List - When assigning contacts to a Level 2 record, you can restrict the UTA Roles that are available from the dropdown with this section.
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ASSIGN is a DCL command that creates a logical name and assigns an equivalence string, or a list of strings, to the specified logical name . If you specify an existing logical name, the new equivalence name replaces the existing equivalence name. For descriptions of ASSIGN/MERGE and ASSIGN/QUEUE , see the respective pages.
DEFINE vs ASSIGN
The only difference between the DEFINE and ASSIGN commands is the sequence of parameter: the first parameter to the DEFINE command is the logical name and the second one is the equivalence string.
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