Assigned vs Creditable - What's the difference?
assigned | creditable |
(assign)
(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
Credible or believable.
* 1847 , Benjamin Franklin Hall, The Land Owner's Manual
* 1996 , Giannino Malossi,Latin Lover: The Passionate South
That brings credit or honour; respectable.
That can be assigned; assignable.
As a verb assigned
is (assign).As an adjective creditable is
credible or believable.assigned
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* assigned servantassign
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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.
creditable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Before receiving his testimony, the officer is required to ascertain from his own knowledge or by a creditable witness that he is a subscribing witness to the deed.
- A more creditable rumour concerned Valentino's hallmark killer glance ...