Institute vs Assign - What's the difference?

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Institute is a related term of assign.

As nouns the difference between institute and assign

is that institute is while assign is an assignee.

As a verb assign is

(lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose.

institute

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) institut, from (etyl), from (etyl) .

Noun

(wikipedia institute) (en noun)

An organization founded to promote a cause

I work in a medical research institute .

An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects

The building housing such an institution

(obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.

* Milton

water sanctified by Christ's institute

(obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.

* Burke

They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.

* Dryden

to make the Stoics' institutes thy own

(legal, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.

(Tomlins)

Derived terms

* educational institute * research institute * academic institute

Etymology 2

From (etyl), from (etyl) .

Verb

(institut)

To begin or initiate (something); to found.

He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.

* (rfdate) Shakespeare

And haply institute / A course of learning and ingenious studies.

* 1776 , (Thomas Jefferson), (Declaration of Independence) :

Whenever any from of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government.

(obsolete) To train, instruct.

*, II.27:

*:Publius was the first that ever instituted the Souldier to manage his armes by dexteritie and skil, and joyned art unto vertue, not for the use of private contentions, but for the wars and Roman peoples quarrels.

* (rfdate) Dr. H. More

If children were early instituted , knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself.

To nominate; to appoint.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

We institute your Grace / To be our regent in these parts of France.

(ecclesiastical, legal) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.

(Blackstone)

Adjective

(-)

(obsolete) Established; organized; founded.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute , very few to suffice.

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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