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Assign vs Beteach - What's the difference?

assign | beteach |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between assign and beteach

is that assign is (obsolete) a thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance while beteach is (obsolete) to teach; instruct.

As verbs the difference between assign and beteach

is that assign is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose while beteach is (obsolete) to show; point out.

As a noun assign

is an assignee.

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.
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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

    beteach

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To show; point out.
  • (obsolete) To give; hand over; deliver up; yield.
  • (obsolete) To hand over as a trust; intrust; commend, commit (someone), usually as a wish expressed on departing; recommend to the care of; give charge to.
  • *1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book VI:
  • *:So he toke his horse and betaughte hem all to God [...].
  • (obsolete) To commit or commend (one), by the expression of a wish, to (God, the devil, etc.).
    • to beteach one good day
  • (obsolete) To allot; assign.
  • (obsolete) To teach; instruct.