Relates vs Assign - What's the difference?
relates | assign |
(relate)
To tell in a descriptive way.
To give an association.
To make a connection or correlation from one thing to another.
* 2002 , Paul Light, Karen Littleton, Learning with Computers: Analysing Productive Interactions (page 92)
To have a connection.
To interact.
To respond through reaction.
To identify with, understand.
(obsolete) To bring back; to restore.
* Spenser
(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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An assignee.
(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between relates and assign
is that relates is while assign is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose.As a noun assign is
an assignee.relates
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * * * ----relate
English
Verb
(relat)- The use of video made it possible to relate' the talk to the answers given to particular problems in the test. With this research design it was possible to ' relate changes in test score measures to changes in linguistic features
- I find it difficult to relate to others because i'm extremely introverted .
- Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again / Both light of heaven and strength of men relate .
Synonyms
* chronicle * describe * divulge * recount * stateassign
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Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* assignment * assignable * assignationNoun
(en noun)- Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.