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According to WordNet, the verb "assign" has 8 sense(s).

202228531 transfer one's right to.

200677683 select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise".

202228698 give out; "We were assigned new uniforms".

202391803 give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person).

201160370 attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story".

202276746 make undue claims to having.

200740053 decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class".

200726300 attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats".


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