Attributed vs Assign - What's the difference?
attributed | assign |
(attribute)
A characteristic or quality of a thing.
(grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
(computing) The applicable option selection; a variable or a value.
(logic) That which is predicated or affirmed of a subject; a predicate; an accident.
(computing, programming) A semantic item with which a method, etc. may be decorated.
To ascribe (something) (to) a given cause, reason etc.
* Archbishop Tillotson
* Shakespeare
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 278:
To associate ownership or authorship of (something) (to) someone.
(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
As verbs the difference between attributed and assign
is that attributed is (attribute) while assign is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose.As a noun assign is
an assignee.attributed
English
Verb
(head)attribute
English
(wikipedia attribute)Noun
(en noun)- His finest attribute is his kindness.
- In the clause "My jacket is more expensive than yours", "My" is the attribute of "jacket".
- This packet has its coherency attribute set to zero.
- There are some more implementations which use C
- attribute s to define custom attributes specific to the AOP engine. Then the classes that need to be intercepted will be decorated with these custom attributes.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
() * attributeness * relational attributeVerb
(attribut)- We attribute nothing to God that hath any repugnancy or contradiction in it.
- The merit of service is seldom attributed to the true and exact performer.
- H?kim's atypical actions should not be attributed to Islam as much as to insanity, which eventually led him to proclaim himself as Allah, whereupon he was murdered by outraged fellow Muslims.
- This poem is attributed to Browning.
Derived terms
() * attributable * attributionExternal links
* * English heteronyms ----assign
English
Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* assignment * assignable * assignationNoun
(en noun)- Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.
