What's the difference between consign and relegate?
Consign
Definition:
(v. t.) To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave.
(v. t.) To give in charge; to commit; to intrust.
(v. t.) To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods.
(v. t.) To assign; to devote; to set apart.
(v. t.) To stamp or impress; to affect.
(v. i.) To submit; to surrender or yield one's self.
(v. i.) To yield consent; to agree; to acquiesce.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hull City clambered out of the relegation zone and consigned Paul Lambert to a half-century of Premier League defeats as Aston Villa manager in the process.
(2) If we do not act now we will consign the cherished principles of equality before the law and access to justice to the dustbin of history, and as we approach the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta that would be an ironic tragedy.” An MoJ spokesperson said: “We note the judgment and will carefully consider our next steps.
(3) On Thursday, a consignment of Russian Yankhont anti-ship cruise missiles arrived in Syria .
(4) The inability to close the eyelids voluntarily is, with these types of lesion, a transient sign which is rapidly replaced by difficulty in maintaining the consign.
(5) Vine also criticises the searching priorities of the Border Force and HM Revenues and Customs by highlighting that 68% of freight consignments targeted for checks at the border are actually undergoing a physical examination while 43,000 low-risk cargoes were being checked.
(6) But these have come with their own problems: despite the improvements in individual living conditions, there is a growing realisation that the RDP housing programme has reinforced apartheid era segregation, continuing to consign the poor to ghettos at the furthest edges of the city.
(7) "Thus we cannot just consign to the backburner the question of the European spirit.
(8) The tiny republic said it would consign the Yugoslav federation to history unless its ultimatum was met within days.
(9) Davis seemed unaware he had consigned himself to the backbenches, telling the BBC: "I may or may not be on the backbenches … This issue matters more to me than my job."
(10) Thus, the same tribunal that regularly consigns ordinary, powerless Americans to prison for decades for even trivial offenses yet again acts to protect the most powerful actors from any consequences for serious crimes: that is the US justice system in a nutshell.
(11) Dean, a consignment store worker from Sebastopol in northern California , said she hopes progressive voters in the state heed the Warriors’ catchphrase and not only cast their ballots for Sanders on Tuesday’s primary, but mobilize others to do the same.
(12) Or a week's worth of manic negotiation has consigned two decades of corporation strategy to history.
(13) Selective pre-enrichment of 5 g of sample prior to plating on to a solid media disclosed that 2,7% of consignments were contaminated with Salmonella.
(14) In Brisbane during October 1988 one larva of the exotic dengue vector Aedes albopictus (Skuse) was collected by quarantine officers from a consignment of used vehicle tyres imported from Asia.
(15) Go further back, and the UK's proud claim to be "a trading nation" was established with consignments of the bloodstained crops of cotton and sugar, to say nothing of the human cargo that went with them.
(16) But the US, Israel and other western spy agencies have also spent years slipping faulty parts into black market consignments of equipment heading to Iran – each designed to wreak havoc inside the delicate machinery requirement for enrichment.
(17) It was after the Indian wars of the 1870s that the indigenous tribes started to be consigned to reservations – on the worst, most desolate lands for grazing or growing crops.
(18) For this purpose an assessment was carried out of the risk of accepting Salmonella contaminated consignments of foods, despite a negative outcome of (i) examination of 1.5 kg samples for Salmonella; (ii) examination of one or two 1 g samples for Enterobacteriaceae; (iii) simultaneous application of both tests.
(19) Voluntarily consigned to the margins, he is ideally placed to embrace the marginalised.
(20) But it's that very poverty of expectation, Birbalsingh argues, which consigns them to failure.
Relegate
Definition:
(v. t.) To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.
Example Sentences:
(1) And now here we all were, gathered together at Maine Road, on the brink of relegation.
(2) Both sides sought a decisive goal in a frenetic finish but ultimately the league leaders and the side fighting relegation shared the points and Mourinho wound up making dark allusions to the influence of officials .
(3) But Vokes’s second-half penalty and Gray’s 61st-minute strike won it for Burnley and left Fulham two points away from the relegation zone.
(4) His first season back in Spain featured six goals in 21 games, including one of the goals in a 2-2 draw against Barcelona that saved his team from relegation, whereas he has been more prolific in his second campaign, scoring 19 times from 38 games, including another goal at the Camp Nou.
(5) Newcastle United are “devastated” by their relegation from the Premier League, according to the club’s managing director Lee Charnley.
(6) For Argyle the result confirmed their relegation to League One, with the rival fans left to ponder wildly differing prospects next season.
(7) As a generalization, younger, more rehabilitatable diabetics have been offered a kidney transplant, while older, often sicker diabetics have been relegated to CAPD, leaving most diabetics in the subset managed by maintenance hemodialysis.
(8) Bundesliga in 1997 when his team Rot-Weiss Essen was relegated," writes Matthias Gläfke.
(9) Hull City clambered out of the relegation zone and consigned Paul Lambert to a half-century of Premier League defeats as Aston Villa manager in the process.
(10) That decision has caused anger among Leeds’ fans after Redfearn saved Leeds from relegation from the Championship after being given the job in the wake of the ill-fated reigns of the unknown David Hockaday and the little known Darko Milanic.
(11) High tension and high stakes coursed through this meeting of top four chasers versus relegation facers and it was to QPR’s credit that they attacked their predicament – and Arsenal – head on.
(12) They were relegated last month at the end of the Norwegian season and he has already overseen the departure of one manager.
(13) Nevertheless an inconsistent League run of form over the second half of the season which has left Watford in 12th place, some 10 points clear of the relegation battle, created speculation that Flores’s position was under threat .
(14) Arsenal went top with a 2-0 win at Aston Villa , Liverpool drew 2-2 against West Bromwich Albion at Anfield while Newcastle’s victory lifted them out of the relegation zone and pressed the champions, Chelsea, to within a point of it, before their visit to Leicester City on Monday night.
(15) Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)], a lipoprotein variant, was relegated for almost 25 years to the study of a few specialists.
(16) Having avoided relegation again in 2002-03, the following season – with a side now featuring Kevin Davies and Emerson Thome – Bolton reach the League Cup final , Allardyce’s first final as a player or manager.
(17) Not relegate them to background characters in the service of a white cis-male fictional protagonist.” Both groups have drawn their conclusions from the film’s trailer.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ever since Margaret Thatcher’s 1979 election victory, ‘Britain’s elites have relegated concerns about inequality below the existential question of how to restore our capitalist economy to economic health’.
(19) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
(20) Of the three relegated clubs, Norwich have adjusted best to the Championship and, Alex Neil having replaced Neil Adams as manager in January, are challenging for a bounce-back promotion.