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Assign vs Connect - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between assign and connect

is that assign is to designate or set apart something for some purpose while connect is to join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

As a noun assign

is an assignee.

assign

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (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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  • 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

    connect

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.
  • (of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.
  • (of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.
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  • *, chapter=7
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  • (of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.
  • To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.
  • To associate.
  • To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.
  • Antonyms

    * disconnect