Assign vs Nominate - What's the difference?
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(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 .
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*: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
To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.
(obsolete) To entitle, confer a name upon.
* 1658': the City of ''Norwich'' [...] was enlarged, builded and '''nominated by the ''Saxons''. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 12)
(zoology) nominotypical
In obsolete terms the difference between assign and nominate
is that assign is a thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance while nominate is to entitle, confer a name upon.As verbs the difference between assign and nominate
is that assign is to designate or set apart something for some purpose while nominate is to name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.As a noun assign
is an assignee.As an adjective nominate is
nominotypical.assign
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(en verb)Derived terms
* assignment * assignable * assignationNoun
(en noun)- Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.
nominate
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* (l)Adjective
(-)- the nominate subspecies