Assign vs Set_aside - What's the difference?
assign | set_aside | Related terms |
(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
(idiomatic) To separate and reserve something for a specific purpose.
(idiomatic) To leave out of account; to omit or neglect.
* Tillotson
(idiomatic) To disagree with something and reject or overturn it.
(idiomatic) To declare something invalid or null and void.
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
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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.
set_aside
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- Plan to set aside three or four hours to see the museum.
- Setting aside all other considerations, I will endeavour to know the truth, and yield to that.