Accredit vs Assign - What's the difference?

Accredit is a synonym of assign.

As verbs the difference between accredit and assign

is that accredit is to ascribe; attribute; credit with while assign is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose.

As a noun assign is

an assignee.

accredit

English

Verb

(en verb)

To ascribe; attribute; credit with.

To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction.

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His censure will ... accredit his praises.

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These reasons ... which accredit and fortify mine opinion.

To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate.

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Beton ... was accredited to the Court of France. -

To believe; to put trust in.

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The version of early Roman history which was accredited in the fifth century.

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He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft.

To enter on the credit side of an account book.

To certify as meeting a predetermined standard; to certify an educational institution as upholding the specified standards necessary for the students to advance.

The school was an accredited college.

To recognize as outstanding.

(literally) To credit.

Derived terms

* accredit with * accreditation * accredited

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