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Allotted vs Assign - What's the difference?

allotted | assign |

As verbs the difference between allotted and assign

is that allotted is (allot) while assign is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose.

As an adjective allotted

is assigned or designated.

As a noun assign is

an assignee.

allotted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (allot)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Assigned or designated.
  • * 1969 , Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents , page 58,
    • On the face of it, the President has only so much time—a very allotted time—to do the things he really believes in and thinks must be done.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= citation , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}

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    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