Assign vs Foreset - What's the difference?
assign | foreset |
(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 .
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*:He assigned to his men their several posts.
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*: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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An assignee.
(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
* Shakespeare
To set before or in front of; bar; block; impede.
(dialectal) To ordain; assign; allot in advance.
To propose, suggest
An obstacle; hinderance.
That which is set ahead or before; proposal, suggestion.
(geology) The deposition of sediment by the turbidity currents above the reservoir water level.
As verbs the difference between assign and foreset
is that assign is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose while foreset is to set before or in front of; bar; block; impede.As nouns the difference between assign and foreset
is that assign is an assignee while foreset is an obstacle; hinderance.As an adjective foreset is
set in fore or front part; placed ahead.assign
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(en verb)Derived terms
* assignment * assignable * assignationNoun
(en noun)- Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.
foreset
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* (l)Verb
Derived terms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Most deltas contain three different types of deposits: foreset , topset and bottomset beds.'' — ''
Fluvial Landforms
