Assigning Synonyms and Antonyms

To appoint and send to a particular place
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. stationing
  2. setting
  3. posting
Attribute or give
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. attributing
  2. imputing
  3. putting
  4. accrediting
  5. placing
  6. fixing
  7. ascribing
  8. fastening
  9. blaming
  10. affixing
To change the ownership of (property) by means of a legal document
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. transferring
  2. conveying
  3. alienating
  4. granting
  5. deeding
  6. ceding
Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. referring
  2. giving
  3. specifying
  4. selecting
  5. charging
  6. imputing
  7. attributing
  8. allowing
  9. transferring
  10. drafting
  11. allotting
  12. tagging
  13. relegating
  14. signing
  15. appointing
  16. setting
  17. enrolling
  18. laying
  19. ordaining
  20. detailing
  21. rating
  22. electing
  23. predicating
  24. hiring
  25. ordering
  26. allocating
  27. ascribing
  28. granting
  29. attaching
  30. distributing
  31. disposing
  32. casting
  33. crediting
  34. designating
  35. entrusting
  36. delegating
  37. deeding
  38. empowering
  39. conveying
  40. naming
  41. consigning
  42. accrediting
  43. nominating
  44. prescribing
  45. appropriating
  46. apportioning
  47. earmarking
  48. affixing
  49. affecting
  50. authorizing
  51. advancing
  52. commissioning
  53. adjudging
  54. adducing
  55. committing
Antonyms:
  1. dismissing
  2. maintaining
Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. designating
  2. earmarking
  3. indicating
  4. appropriating
  5. delegating
  6. allocating
  7. specifying
Antonyms:
  1. keeping
The act of distributing something to designated places or persons
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. assignment

Assigning Sentence Examples

  • The Treaty of Trianon satisfied the most essential claims of Yugoslavia, by dividing the whole Banat (save a small Magyar triangle opposite the city of Szeged) between her and Rumania, and by assigning to her the whole Backa (except Baja and district), part of the Baranya (forming the angle between Drave and Danube) and the Medjumurje (between Drava and Mur).

  • There is no clear evidence as to when the building was begun, some placing it among the temples projected by Pericles, others assigning it to the time after the peace of Nicias in 421 B.C. The work was interrupted by the stress of the Peloponnesian War, but in 409 B.C. a commission was appointed to make a report on the state of the building and to undertake its completion, which was carried out in the following year.

  • His numerical table, therefore, differs from all others made before or since, prophetically assigning the place of honour to the one ancient scale now recognized as the foundation of the modern tonal system.

  • In thus assigning the first collection of psalms to some Judaean community of Hasidim in the earlier Maccabaean period we need not conclude that all the psalms contained in this collection were first composed at this time.

  • Since this last collection includes a psalm (cx.) which can scarcely refer to any one earlier than Simon the Maccabee, and cannot well be later than his time, we are justified in assigning the compilation of this collection to about the year 140 B.C. But by this time a great change had taken place in the aims and aspirations of the Jews.

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