ASSIGNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does assigning mean? 

• ASSIGNING (noun)
  The noun ASSIGNING has 1 sense:

1. the act of distributing something to designated places or persons

  Familiarity information: ASSIGNING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASSIGNING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of distributing something to designated places or persons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

assigning; assignment

Context example:

the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum

Hypernyms ("assigning" is a kind of...):

distribution (the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assigning"):

allocation; storage allocation ((computer science) the assignment of particular areas of a magnetic disk to particular data or instructions)

 Context examples 

Criteria established for assigning high-frequency microsatellite instability (MSI-H) in cancers requiring that at least two of five markers (BAT25, BAT26, D2S123, D5S346, D17S250) score positive for MSI.

(NCI Criterion, NCI Thesaurus)

The method includes the steps of assigning tiepoints in a reference image and in one or more object images.

(Gel Warping Algorithm, NCI Thesaurus)

The process of assigning nonclinical study subjects to treatment or control groups using an element of chance to determine the assignments in order to reduce bias.

(Nonclinical Randomization, NCI Thesaurus)

The cell fusion technique can be used as a method of assigning genes to specific chromosomes.

(Cell Fusion, NCI Thesaurus)

Criteria established for assigning high-frequency microsatellite instability (MSI-H) in cancers requiring that at least two of three markers (BAT25, BAT26, D2S123) score positive for MSI.

(Paty Criterion, NCI Thesaurus)

A coded value specifying the method of assigning entities to groups or categories.

(Allocation Code, NCI Thesaurus)

A coded value specifying the method of assigning subjects to treatment or control groups.

(Interventional Study Protocol Version Allocation Code, NCI Thesaurus)

An algorithm for assigning significance values to genes being tested for their ability to discriminate between microarray samples.

(Comparative Marker Selection, NCI Thesaurus)

Now, upon his assigning some duty to his fellow-Professor (it was only the carrying of an aneroid barometer), the matter suddenly came to a head.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I find likewise that your printer has been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates, of my several voyages and returns; neither assigning the true year, nor the true month, nor day of the month: and I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book; neither have I any copy left: however, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert, if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I cannot stand to them; but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid readers to adjust it as they please.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)