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Assign vs Overgenerate - What's the difference?

assign | overgenerate |

As verbs the difference between assign and overgenerate

is that assign is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose while overgenerate is (natural language processing) to assign meaning to incorrect sentences.

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.
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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

    overgenerate

    English

    Verb

    (overgenerat)
  • (natural language processing) To assign meaning to incorrect sentences.
  • :If you know that all the text you wish to analyse is correct, a set of rules that overgenerate a grammar would be sufficient.