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Assign vs Del - What's the difference?

assign | del |

In obsolete terms the difference between assign and del

is that assign is a thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance while del is a part, portion.

As nouns the difference between assign and del

is that assign is an assignee while del is the symbol ∇ used to denote the gradient operator.

As a verb assign

is to designate or set apart something for some purpose.

As an abbreviation del is

delegate.

As a proper noun Del is

a diminutive of the male given name Derek.

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

    del

    English

    Etymology 1

    From delta, the symbol being an inverted delta

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (analysis) The symbol ? used to denote the gradient operator.
  • (mathematics) the symbol , in the context of a partial differential
  • Synonyms
    * atled, nabla
    See also
    *

    Etymology 2

    See

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) a part, portion
  • Etymology 3

    Shortening

    Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • delegate
  • delegation
  • delete
  • delineavit
  • Anagrams

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