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Dole vs Assign - What's the difference?

dole | assign |

As verbs the difference between dole and assign

is that dole is while assign is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose.

As a noun assign is

an assignee.

dole

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) dol, from (etyl) .

Verb

(dol)
  • To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

    • Noun

  • Money or other goods given as charity.
  • * Dryden
    • So sure the dole , so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall.
  • * Keble
    • Heaven has in store a precious dole .
  • Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
  • * Cleveland
    • At her general dole , / Each receives his ancient soul.
  • (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed.
    • I get my dole paid twice a week.
    I?ve been on the dole for two years now.
  • * 1996 , , page 107,
    • The men sit because they?re worn out from walking to the Labour Exchange every morning to sign for the dole , discussing the world?s problems and wondering what to do with the rest of the day.
  • * 1997 , , OECD Economic Surveys: Australia , page 67,
    • The FY 1997/98 Commonwealth budget allocated funding of A$ 21.6 million to the Work for the Dole initiative for unemployed young people.
  • A boundary; a landmark.
    • (Halliwell)
  • (UK, dialect) A void space left in tillage.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) dolus, from (etyl) doleo.

    Noun

    (-)
  • (archaic) Sorrow or grief; dolour.
  • * 1485 , , 1868, Morte Darthur , page 212,
    • Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole .
  • * Tennyson
    • And she died. So that day there was dole in Astolat.
  • (legal, Scotland) dolus
    • Derived terms
    * (payment to support the unemployed) dole bludger

    Anagrams

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    assign

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
  • :
  • (lb) To appoint or select someone for some office.
  • :
  • (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.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :

    • Derived terms

    * assignment * assignable * assignation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An assignee.
  • (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.
    English transitive verbs