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Assign vs Set_aside - What's the difference?

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Assign is a related term of set_aside.


As verbs the difference between assign and set_aside

is that assign is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose while set_aside is (idiomatic) to separate and reserve something for a specific purpose.

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.
  • :
  • (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

    set_aside

    English

    Verb

  • (idiomatic) To separate and reserve something for a specific purpose.
  • Plan to set aside three or four hours to see the museum.
  • (idiomatic) To leave out of account; to omit or neglect.
  • * Tillotson
  • Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavour to know the truth, and yield to that.
  • (idiomatic) To disagree with something and reject or overturn it.
  • (idiomatic) To declare something invalid or null and void.
  • Antonyms

    * raise, beg (as in beg the question) (of a question)

    See also

    * set-aside

    Anagrams

    * * * English phrasal verbs