(v. t.) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
(v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
(v. t.) To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
(v. t.) To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
(v. t.) To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.
(v. t.) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.
(v. i.) To ordain; to determine; to arrange.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peter retired in 1998, when he was appointed CBE for his services to drama.
(2) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(3) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(4) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
(5) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
(6) At the moment the MPA makes the appointments in consultation with the Met commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson.
(7) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(8) The data document the compliance of adolescent girls with telephone appointments and suggest that this technique may be a useful adjunct for monitoring patients requiring close medical follow-up.
(9) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
(10) She said she has turned to hairdressing to pay the bills, with “appointments for braids and weaves about three times a week”.
(11) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
(12) A teaching union has questioned appointment of a trustee of Britain's largest academy chain group as chairman of the schools regulator Ofsted , in what was a surprise announcement meant to calm some of the internal conflicts within the coalition.
(13) "I think there is an absolutely determined effort from No 10 that Conservative supporters will be appointed to public bodies.
(14) With Everton heading for a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League, the additional television revenue and prospect of further funds from Fellaini, the club are confident of appointing an "equally significant" successor to Moyes, according to the chairman, Bill Kenwright.
(15) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
(16) The Rhode Island Democrat got his start in national politics in 1999 when he was appointed to the Senate as a Republican after his father’s death.
(17) Elvira Nabiullina took office in June of this year after her appointment by President Putin – not a man known for his feminist views.
(18) This is no doubt a captain’s pick by Malcolm Turnbull and we hope for the sake of the relationship that it has been a good pick.” The planned appointment of Hockey to the Washington role has been one of the worst-kept secrets in Australian politics .
(19) Michael Garcia, the former New York district attorney appointed to investigate the 2018 and 2022 votes, will deliver his report in seven weeks.
(20) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.
Assign
Definition:
(v. t.) To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
(v. t.) To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.
(v. t.) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
(v.) A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
(n.) A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
Example Sentences:
(1) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
(2) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
(3) Five days later, the animals were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Group 1 received intracranial implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 2 received intraperitoneal implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 3 received serial intraperitoneal injections of dexamethasone; and Group 4 received sham treatment.
(4) Students are assigned to tutorial groups, and much of the educational thrust of the program is built upon interactions within these groups.
(5) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
(6) After the first stage of analysis the spin systems of 60 of the 77 residues were assigned to the appropriate residue type, providing an ample basis for subsequent sequence-specific assignments.
(7) In an effort to identify the optimal dose and strain of measles vaccination for early immunization, Peruvian infants were randomly assigned to receive one of three measles vaccines in varying doses at 5 to 6 or 8 to 9 months of age.
(8) Independent t test results indicated nurses assigned more importance to psychosocial support and skills training than did patients; patients assigned more importance to sensation--discomfort than did nurses.
(9) Families were randomly assigned to one of two forms of conjoint therapy: an Insight-oriented treatment (N = 10) or a Problem-Solving intervention (N = 10).
(10) Patients were randomly assigned to receive 10 minutes before surgery either I.V.
(11) Some additional amino proton resonances have also been assigned.
(12) These chemical shift assignments have been achieved using 1H-detected two-dimensional heteronuclear 1H-13C correlation techniques.
(13) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
(14) These data agree with the recent assignment of DIA1 to chromosome G22 by Fisher et al.
(15) The sequential resonance assignment of the 1H NMR spectrum of the antihypertensive and antiviral protein BDS-I from the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata is presented.
(16) Following a baseline examination, the furcation-involved molars were randomly assigned in each patient to either a test or a control treatment procedure.
(17) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
(18) This initial observation of release of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis in vivo along with histamine assigns the mast cell a central role in cold urticaria.
(19) This assignment was supported by peptide mapping with a tryptophan-specific reagent.
(20) Both amino acids were found to have the L-configuration by GC analysis on a chiral column and alanine was assigned to be the N-terminal amino acid by Edman degradation.