1. [v]  select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"
2. [v]  attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
3. [v]  decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"
4. [v]  put something on or into (abstractly) assign; ; "She put much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story"
5. [v]  transfer one's right to
6. [v]  give out; "We were assigned new uniforms"
7. [v]  make undue claims to having
8. [v]  give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

ASSIGN is a 6 letter word that starts with A.

1. \As*sign"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assigned}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Assigning}.] [OE. assignen, asignen, F. assigner, fr. L.
   assignare; ad + signare to mark, mark out, designate, signum
   mark, sign. See {Sign}.]
   1. To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
            In the order I assign to them.        --Loudon.
            The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better
            station than that in which his lot had been
            assigned.                             --Southey.
            He assigned to his men their several posts.
                                                  --Prescott.
   2. 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.
            All as the dwarf the way to her assigned. --Spenser.
            It is not easy to assign a period more eventful.
                                                  --De Quincey.
   3. (Law) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to
      transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called
      assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
   {To assign dower}, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's
      share or portion in an estate. --Kent.
   

2. \As*sign"\, n. [From {Assign}, v.]
   A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an
   appurtenance. [Obs.]
         Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as
         girdles, hangers, and so.                --Shak.
   

3. \As*sign"\, n. [See {Assignee}.] (Law)
   A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as,
   a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
   

4. \AS*sign"\, v. i. (Law)
   To transfer or pass over property to another, whether for the
   benefit of the assignee or of the assignor's creditors, or in
   furtherance of some trust.