(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.
Reassign
Definition:
(v. t.) To assign back or again; to transfer back what has been assigned.
Example Sentences:
(1) At 35 wk of age, the females were reassigned to the various light sources in order to achieve all possible combinations of adolescent and breeder light-source treatments.
(2) In 1980, Dr. Rubin stated that preservation of the glans to reconstruct the clitoris in male-to-female sex reassignment surgery gave good cosmetic and functional results.
(3) The individual psychotherapy consisted of phases of symptomatic expression, emerging depression, interpersonal awareness, symptom resolution and disavowel of the wish for sexual reassignment.
(4) The reassignment of the three C-2 histidine resonances of S-protein is confirmed by partial deuteration studies.
(5) Transsexuals who had not undergone surgery, although it had been offered to them providing they fulfilled the usual requirements, were classified into various subgroups, measured according to their attitude towards sex reassignment surgery: they were transsexuals with an unaltered wish for surgery, transsexuals who were ambivalent towards surgery (hesitating patients), and transsexuals who had relinquished their wish for surgery and lived in the initial gender role.
(6) Subjects were 111 postoperative transsexuals who had been surgically reassigned for at least one year, representing a follow-up rate of 84.1%.
(7) Ten patients with female gender dysphoria were treated with exogenous androgen (testosterone [T] enanthate USP) and underwent sex reassignment surgery.
(8) The prevalence of transsexualism in Singapore was estimated by counting all the patients who sought sex-reassignment surgery and were subsequently diagnosed as transsexuals by psychiatrists.
(9) An administrative challenge to the ban was launched on behalf of Denee Mallon, a Medicare recipient who was denied coverage for a sex reassignment surgery recommended by her physician.
(10) People also think that being trans has something to do with child abuse or they obsess over gender reassignment surgery.
(11) The trainer used four different strategies for reassigning a homework task of using self-statements to cope with pain produced by immersing one hand in ice water.
(12) For this reason, during the last 18 years, 10 individuals with this problem were selected for surgical sex reassignment.
(13) The configuration of the C-4 stereocenter was unambiguously assigned for compounds 9 and 10, and certain nmr reassignments have been provided for compound 1.
(14) There are clear connections between campaigns to defeat bills that would improve the health of blacks and other disadvantaged groups and acquiescence with the present reassignment of them to the underfunded, overcrowded, inferior, public health-care sector.
(15) In conclusion the recent critical re-orientation toward psychotherapy for transsexuals as a method to control psychic disorders by psychic means is corroborated, albeit its chances may be viewed rather skeptically in the light of the present boom of gender reassignment operations.
(16) Autosomal dominant aniridia with complete penetrance without Wilms' tumor in five generations with 27 affected family members has been reassigned from chromosome 2p25 to chromosome 11p13.
(17) We analyzed data from the 1985 National DRG Validation Study, which carefully reabstracted and reassigned ICD-9-CM diagnosis and procedure codes from a national sample of 7050 medical records, to determine whether coding accuracy had improved since the Institute of Medicine studies of the 1970s and to assess the current coding accuracy of specific diagnoses and procedures.
(18) The vocal characteristics of a 63-year-old individual who underwent male-to-female sex reassignment surgery were evaluated.
(19) One patient with ambiguous genitalia, who was initially raised as a male, was reassigned female gender at 1 year of age when the diagnosis of ITF was made.
(20) A review of the subgenus Petrowimeres is presented including the reassignment of several species to the subgenus Tetrameres.