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Aligned vs Assigned - What's the difference?

aligned | assigned |

As verbs the difference between aligned and assigned

is that aligned is (align) while assigned is (assign).

As an adjective aligned

is referring to something that has an alignment with something else.

aligned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (align)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • referring to something that has an alignment with something else
  • allied
  • Anagrams

    *

    assigned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (assign)
  • Derived terms

    * assigned servant

    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