Vested vs Assigned - What's the difference?
vested | assigned |
(legal) Settled, fixed or absolute, with no contingencies.
Dressed or clothed, especially in vestments.
(vest)
(assign)
(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 verbs the difference between vested and assigned
is that vested is past tense of vest while assigned is past tense of assign.As an adjective vested
is settled, fixed or absolute, with no contingencies.vested
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- (en)
- The Pope, vested in mitre and cope, is greeted by a newly created Cardinal.
Derived terms
* vested interestVerb
(head)assigned
English
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* assigned servantassign
English
Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* assignment * assignable * assignationNoun
(en noun)- Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.