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Adjudicate vs Assign - What's the difference?

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Adjudicate is a related term of assign.


As verbs the difference between adjudicate and assign

is that adjudicate is to settle a legal case or other dispute while assign is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose.

As a noun assign is

an assignee.

adjudicate

English

(Adjudication)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To settle a legal case or other dispute.
  • To act as a judge.
  • Synonyms

    * arbitrate * decide * settle * resolve * try

    Derived terms

    * adjudication * adjudicative * adjudicator

    assign

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
  • :
  • (lb) To appoint or select someone for some office.
  • :
  • (lb) To allot or give something as a task.
  • *(Robert Southey) (1774-1843)
  • *:The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned .
  • * (1796-1859)
  • *:He assigned to his men their several posts.
  • *
  • *:Captain Edward Carlisle; 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.
  • (lb) To attribute or sort something into categories.
  • To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.
  • To give (a value) to a variable.
  • :
  • Derived terms

    * assignment * assignable * assignation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An assignee.
  • (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.
    English transitive verbs