(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.
Sublet
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Sublet
(v. t.) To underlet; to lease, as when a lessee leases to another person.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you’re renting your home, you are likely to find subletting is banned and could be cause for a disgruntled landlord to evict you.
(2) The biggest problem, he foresees, would be illegal subletting, but such is the strength of community involvement among tenants, who have been involved in the regeneration project at all stages, he suspects this would be minimal.
(3) An emerging critique today was that many difficult problems have been sublet to commissions and reviews.
(4) The investigations were carried out on rabbits irradiated with subletal (400R) and letal (800 and 1200R) doses of ionizing radiation.
(5) Second, because it shows that Miliband rightly wants to lead from the front and not sublet economic policy to the shadow chancellor as Tony Blair did; the key public spending shadow team will now be Miliband, Johnson and the new work and pensions shadow, Douglas Alexander, a well-balanced group.
(6) The apartments, which are rented by the hospital and sublet to the patients, are located in modern, well-maintained high-rise buildings within commuting distance from the hospital.
(7) The office also claims that Matthias D allowed Böhnhardt to sublet one apartment under an alias as the three committed terrorist acts including murders and bank robberies.
(8) The bank has the option to take all the floors or sublet it to tenants.
(9) I'm going to search for a sublet, and then I will ask all my friends.
(10) Tangled up in all this is illicit stuff that teeters into outright criminality: illegal gangmasters who recruit people in eastern Europe ; the unauthorised subletting whereby houses are crammed with people living two or three – or even more – to a room; an allegedly thriving trade in bootleg alcohol and cigarettes .
(11) For several reasons these ended in 1976, leaving me dependent on rent from lodgers to whom I sublet rooms in my council house, having some to spare because my wife and I had separated.
(12) Randeep Ramesh Treasury George Osborne's own department, one of the first to agree its budget, has committed to overall resource savings of 33% in real terms by 2014-15 by reducing staffing levels, streamlining internal processes and halving the net cost of its building, possibly by subletting unoccupied parts.
(13) In addition to a staffing review, all contracts would need to be challenged to remove any discretionary costs and offices considered for sale or sublet.” The legal changes being introduced by the Conservatives have been condemned as the most unfair alterations to political parties’ funding since the second world war.
(14) But now the waiting lists are so long, those holders who find themselves too busy to dig sometimes illegally sublet rather than let go of their plot altogether – the vegetable equivalent, I suppose, of the dodgy things people get up to when it comes to school catchment areas.
(15) People renting a property can also sublet and get the same benefits.
(16) The retailer has installed coffee shops, restaurants and gyms to make the stores more attractive and looked to sublet space to other retailers.
(17) Tax incentives should encourage renting, co-ops and sublets such as Airbnb .
(18) Subletal intoxication with an irreversible inhibitor of AChE is followed by a faster recovery of the smaller forms.
(19) During this time, too, it was relatively simple to claim housing benefit while subletting my student flat over the summer for nothing to the mendicant men who drank under the bridge in exchange for some of their Giro Party cargo (a dozen cans of Tennent's Super each Tuesday).
(20) The guidelines also make it clear that you can’t sublet a Help to Buy property.