Assign vs Evidence - What's the difference?
assign | evidence |
(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
Facts or observations presented in support of an assertion.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.}}
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, volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(w)
, title= (legal) Anything admitted by a court to prove or disprove alleged matters of fact in a trial.
* {{quote-news, year=2004, date=April 15, work=The Scotsman
, title= One who bears witness.
* Sir (Walter Scott)
To provide evidence for, or suggest the truth of.
As nouns the difference between assign and evidence
is that assign is an assignee while evidence is obviousness, clearness.As a verb assign
is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose.assign
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Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* assignment * assignable * assignationNoun
(en noun)- Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.
evidence
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(wikipedia evidence)Noun
(en-noun)Pixels or Perish, passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence , for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer, passage=For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year. }}
- infamous and perjured evidences
Derived terms
* anecdotal evidence * circumstantial evidence * evidence-based medicine * hearsay evidenceDerived terms
* after-discovered evidence * clear and convincing evidence * demurrer to evidence * preponderance of evidence, preponderance of the evidence * self-evidenceVerb
(evidenc)- She was furious, as evidenced by her slamming the door.