Assignee vs Affiliate - What's the difference?

As an adjective assignee

is .

someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.

to adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.

(en noun)

one to whom a thing is assigned

(legal) one to whom rights or property is being transferred

one who is appointed to act or speak in place of another; an agent

(en noun)

Someone or something that is affiliated, or associated; a member of a group of associated things.

The local channel was an affiliate of a national network.

(affiliat)

To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.

* I. Taylor

Is the soul affiliated to God, or is it estranged and in rebellion?

To fix the paternity of; — said of an illegitimate child.

to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another

To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.

* H. Spencer

How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes?

To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; — followed by to'' or ''with .

* affiliate with * affiliate to * affiliation