v. select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"

v. 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"

v. transfer one's right to

v. give out; "We were assigned new uniforms"

v. make undue claims to having

v. decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"