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Assign vs Foreset - What's the difference?

assign | foreset |

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

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.
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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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  • 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

    foreset

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • To set before or in front of; bar; block; impede.
  • (dialectal) To ordain; assign; allot in advance.
  • To propose, suggest
  • Derived terms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Most deltas contain three different types of deposits: foreset , topset and bottomset beds.'' — '' Fluvial Landforms

    Derived terms

    * (geology) foreset bed

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Set in fore or front part; placed ahead.