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Enroll vs Assign - What's the difference?

enroll | assign |

In transitive terms the difference between enroll and assign

is that enroll is to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of while assign is to attribute or sort something into categories.

As a noun assign is

an assignee.

enroll

English

Alternative forms

* enrol (UK) (CA)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
  • * Prescott
    • All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.
  • * Milton
    • An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling .
  • To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of
    • They were eager to enroll new recruits.
  • To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something)
    • Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?
  • (obsolete) To envelop; to enwrap.
    • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * (enter in a register) list, note, note down, record, register * (enlist) enlist, sign up, subscribe * (become a member) enlist, join, join up, sign up, subscribe * (join a class) add, register for

    Derived terms

    * enrollee * enroller * enrollment

    assign

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.
  • :
  • (lb) To appoint or select someone for some office.
  • :
  • (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.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :

    • 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