Attach vs Assign - What's the difference?
attach | assign | Synonyms |
(obsolete, legal) To arrest, seize.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.xii:
* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 3 scene 2
* Miss Yonge
To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
* Paley
* Macaulay
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* Brougham
To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to .
* Jane Austen
* Cowper
To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to .
* Bayard Taylor
(obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
(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
In transitive terms the difference between attach and assign
is that attach is to fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively) while assign is to attribute or sort something into categories.In obsolete terms the difference between attach and assign
is that attach is to take, seize, or lay hold of while assign is a thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.As verbs the difference between attach and assign
is that attach is to arrest, seize while assign is to designate or set apart something for some purpose.As a noun assign is
an assignee.attach
English
Verb
- Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait
- Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
- The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.
- An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
- The shoulder blade is attached only to the muscles.
- a huge stone to which the cable was attached
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- The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
- Dower will attach .
- (Cooley)
- attached''' to a friend; '''attaching others to us by wealth or flattery
- incapable of attaching a sensible man
- God by various ties attaches man to man.
- to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
- To this treasure a curse is attached .
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (to fasten, to join to ) connect, annex, affix, uniteAntonyms
* (to fasten, to join to ) detach, unfasten, disengage, separateDerived terms
() * attachable * attachment * attacher * get attachedassign
English
Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* assignment * assignable * assignationNoun
(en noun)- Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.