select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise";
attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats";
decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class";
attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story";
transfer one''s right to;
give out or allot; "We were assigned new uniforms";
make undue claims to having;
give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person);
