Corresponding vs Assign - What's the difference?
corresponding | assign |
that have a similar relationship
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=November 10
, author=Jeremy Wilson
, title=England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report
, work=Telegraph
(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 corresponding and assign
is that corresponding is while assign is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose.As nouns the difference between corresponding and assign
is that corresponding is action of the verb to correspond while assign is an assignee.As an adjective corresponding
is that have a similar relationship.corresponding
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott. }}
Derived terms
* corresponding angles * correspondinglyassign
English
Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* assignment * assignable * assignationNoun
(en noun)- Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.