Deligate vs Assign - What's the difference?
deligate | assign |
(surgery, dated, transitive) To bind up; to bandage.
* 1851 , The Medical examiner, and record of medical science: Volume 7 (page 322)
(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 deligate and assign
is that deligate is (surgery|dated|transitive) to bind up; to bandage while assign is (lb) to designate or set apart something for some purpose.As a noun assign is
an assignee.deligate
English
Verb
(deligat)- Every one is aware of the uncertainty as well as great danger of the different cutting and deligating operations for the removal of this distressing infirmity.
assign
English
Verb
(en verb)Derived terms
* assignment * assignable * assignationNoun
(en noun)- Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so.