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Schedule vs Assign - What's the difference?

schedule | assign |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between schedule and assign

is that schedule is (obsolete) a slip of paper; a short note while assign is (obsolete) a thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.

As nouns the difference between schedule and assign

is that schedule is (obsolete) a slip of paper; a short note while assign is an assignee.

As verbs the difference between schedule and assign

is that schedule is to create a time- while assign is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose.

schedule

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A slip of paper; a short note.
  • (legal) An annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract.
  • (senseid)A timetable, or other time-based plan of events; a plan of what is to occur, and at what time.
  • (US) Each of the five divisions into which controlled drugs are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.
  • (computer science) An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.

    • Synonyms

    * timetable * timeline

    Verb

    (schedul)
  • To create a time-.
  • To plan an activity at a specific date or time in the future.
    • I'll schedule you for three-o'clock then.
    The next elections are scheduled on the 20th of November.

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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.
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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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    • 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