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Assigned vs Condemned - What's the difference?

assigned | condemned |

As verbs the difference between assigned and condemned

is that assigned is (assign) while condemned is (condemn).

As an adjective condemned is

having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.

As a noun condemned is

a person sentenced to death.

assigned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (assign)

    • Derived terms

    * assigned servant

    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

    condemned

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having received a curse to be doomed to suffer eternally.
  • Having been sharply scolded.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 19 , author=Kerry Brown , title=Kim Jong-il obituary , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.}}
  • Adjudged or sentenced to punishment, destruction, or confiscation.
  • (of a building) Officially marked uninhabitable.

    • Synonyms

    * (having received a curse) damned, doomed

    Antonyms

    * (having received a curse) blessed, saved

    Noun

    (condemned)
  • A person sentenced to death.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (condemn)