Delegate vs Ascribe - What's the difference?
delegate | ascribe |
a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
a representative at a conference, etc.
(US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies
(computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer
to authorize someone to be a delegate
to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
(computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of yours
To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.
To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator.
As verbs the difference between delegate and ascribe
is that delegate is to authorize someone to be a delegate while ascribe is to attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.As a noun delegate
is a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.delegate
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(delegat)ascribe
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Verb
(ascrib)- One may ascribe these problems to the federal government; however, at this stage it is unclear what caused them.
- It is arguable as to whether we can truly ascribe this play to Shakespeare.
