The verb assign has 8 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (15) delegate, designate, depute, assign -- (give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person))
2. (15) assign, allot, portion -- (give out or allot; "We were assigned new uniforms")
3. (7) impute, ascribe, assign, attribute -- (attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats")
4. (7) assign, specify, set apart -- (select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise")
5. (1) put, assign -- (attribute or give; "She put too 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")
6. arrogate, assign -- (make undue claims to having)
7. assign -- (transfer one's right to)
8. assign, attribute -- (decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class")