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# assigned

«assigned» in Mova's school dictionary: **given as a job or task to someone: «the homework assigned…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (past form and past participle of assign: assign, assigns, assigned, assigning); adjective (assigned)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Assigned means given as a job or task to someone: «the homework assigned by the teacher». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assigned/#m1)

2) Assigned means put in a certain place or group: «your assigned seat». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assigned/#m2)

3) In maths, a value is assigned to a letter when we say what number it stands for. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assigned/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school it is about tasks and places: assigned reading, assigned groups, assigned seats. In maths and computing, assigning a value to a variable (x = 5) means giving the letter that value. Phrases: «be assigned to», «assigned seat», «assigned reading».

### examples

- The teacher assigned us a page of sums. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assigned/#x1)
- Each pupil was assigned a partner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assigned/#x2)
- Please sit in your assigned seat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assigned/#x3)
- 24 children were assigned to 4 groups equally; how many in each group? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assigned/#x4)
- The value 7 was assigned to the letter n. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assigned/#x5)
- Mum assigned me the job of feeding the cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assigned/#x6)
- A place in his palace was assigned to him by Zeus, who employed him to carry his thunder and lightning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assigned/#x7)

### note

Spelling: as-SIGN-ed — keep the silent g. Verb: assign something to someone, or assign someone something. Maths: «assigned equally to groups» means divide.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «assigned» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/assigned/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.