Sold vs Assign - What's the difference?
sold | assign |
(sell)
(lb) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
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(lb) To appoint or select someone for some office.
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(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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An assignee.
(obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between sold and assign
is that sold is income of a soldier, conscripts in military or other national service, and certain other professions while assign is an assignee.As a verb assign is
(lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose.sold
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* oversoldEtymology 2
(etyl) solde. See soldier, and compare sou.assign
English
Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* assignment * assignable * assignationNoun
(en noun)- Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.