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Assign vs Adjudge - What's the difference?

assign | adjudge |

As verbs the difference between assign and adjudge

is that assign is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose while adjudge is to declare to be.

As a noun assign

is an assignee.

assign

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (lb) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
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  • (lb) To appoint or select someone for some office.
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  • (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.
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  • 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

    adjudge

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To declare to be.
  • To deem or determine to be.
  • *{{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=December 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Man City 2 - 0 Bayern Munich , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=City felt they were victims of an injustice after 16 minutes when Silva's free-kick floated straight in, but French official Stephane Lannoy adjudged that Joleon Lescott had fouled keeper Jorg Butt.}}
  • To award judicially; to assign.
  • *XIX c. , James Russell Lowell,
  • *:What doth the poor man's son inherit?
  • *:Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things,
  • *:A rank adjudged by toil-won merit,
  • *:Content that from employment springs