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Sheila vs Assign - What's the difference?

sheila | assign |

As a proper noun sheila

is or sheila can be .

As a verb assign is

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

As a noun assign is

an assignee.

sheila

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A woman.
  • * 2009 , Rosemary Van Den Berg, Clogs and Bare Feet , page 208,
  • He was a real gentleman and although he never asked any personal questions as to why ‘a couple of sheilas ’ was hitch hiking to Perth, he said he was glad of the company.
  • * 2010 , Deke Rivers, The Singer and His Songs , page 22,
  • “You know I counted no less than fifty-five sheilas out on the street today, all screaming when you guys played.”
  • * 2011 , Kate Shayler, Burnished: Burnside Life Stories , page 8,
  • I definitely didn?t think about getting married. I was real scared of sheilas back then.

    Coordinate terms

    * bloke, bruce (Australian)

    Synonyms

    * See

    Antonyms

    * See

    Anagrams

    * Australian slang

    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