| assign | (verb) select something or someone for a specific purpose | Synonyms: set apart, specify |
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| (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, attribute, impute |
| (verb) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme | Synonyms: attribute |
| (verb) attribute or give | Synonyms: put |
| (verb) transfer one's right to | - |
| (verb) give out | Synonyms: allot, portion |
| (verb) make undue claims to having | Synonyms: arrogate |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: delegate, depute, designate |
| assignable | (adjective) legally transferable to the ownership of another | Synonyms: conveyable, negotiable, transferable, transferrable |
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| assignation | (noun) a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) | Synonyms: tryst |
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| (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, parceling, parcelling |
| assigned | (adjective) appointed to a post or duty | - |
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| assignee | (noun) (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred) | - |
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| assigning | (noun) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | Synonyms: assignment |
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| assignment | (noun) a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces) | Synonyms: duty assignment |
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| (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, designation, naming |
| (noun) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | Synonyms: assigning |
| (noun) an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) | - |
| (noun) the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another | - |
| (noun) (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance | Synonyms: grant |
| assignor | (noun) (law) the party who makes an assignment | - |
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| battlesight | (noun) an arrangement of sights that makes possible the rapid aiming of a firearm at short ranges | Synonyms: battle sight |
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| bombsight | (noun) a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs | - |
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| consign | (verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping | Synonyms: charge |
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| (verb) commit forever; commit irrevocably | - |
| (verb) send to an address | - |
| consignee | (noun) the person to whom merchandise is delivered over | - |
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| consigner | (noun) the person who delivers over or commits merchandise | Synonyms: consignor |
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| consignment | (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: commitment, committal |
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| (noun) the delivery of goods for sale or disposal | - |
| (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, freight, lading, load, loading, payload, shipment |
| consignor | (noun) the person who delivers over or commits merchandise | Synonyms: consigner |
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| cosign | (verb) sign and endorse (another person's signature), as for a loan | Synonyms: co-sign |
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| (verb) sign jointly | Synonyms: co-sign |
| cosignatory | (adjective) signing jointly with others | - |
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| (noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosigner |
| cosigner | (noun) one of two or more signers of the same document (as a treaty or declaration) | Synonyms: cosignatory |
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| (noun) a signer in addition to the principal signer (to verify the authenticity of the principal signature or to provide surety) | - |
| countersign | (noun) a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed | Synonyms: countersignature |
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| (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: parole, password, watchword, word |
| (verb) add one's signature to after another's to attest authenticity | - |
| countersignature | (noun) a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed | Synonyms: countersign |
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| design | (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: designing |
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| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: figure, pattern |
| (noun) a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something | - |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, excogitation, innovation, invention |
| (noun) an arrangement scheme | Synonyms: plan |
| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, pattern |
| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, intent, intention, purpose |
| (verb) plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect | - |
| (verb) intend or have as a purpose | - |
| (verb) create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner | - |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, plan, project |
| (verb) create designs | - |
| (verb) conceive or fashion in the mind; invent | - |
| designate | (adjective) appointed but not yet installed in office | - |
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| (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: destine, intend, specify |
| (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: denominate |
| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: destine, doom, fate |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: indicate, point, show |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, depute |
| designation | (noun) the act of putting a person into a non-elective position | Synonyms: appointment, assignment, naming |
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| (noun) the act of designating or identifying something | Synonyms: identification |
| (noun) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | Synonyms: appellation, appellative, denomination |
| designative | (adjective) serving to designate | - |
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| designatum | (noun) something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression | - |
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| designed | (adjective) done or made or performed with purpose and intent | Synonyms: intentional, unintentional |
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| designedly | (adverb) with intention; in an intentional manner | Synonyms: advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately, intentionally, on purpose, purposely |
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| designer | (noun) someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings) | Synonyms: architect |
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| (noun) someone who designs clothing | Synonyms: clothes designer, couturier, fashion designer |
| (noun) a person who specializes in interior design | Synonyms: interior designer |
| (noun) a person who devises plots or intrigues | Synonyms: intriguer |
| (noun) someone who specializes in graphic design | Synonyms: graphic designer |
| designing | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: scheming |
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| (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: design |
| ensign | (noun) colors flown by a ship to show its nationality | - |
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| (noun) an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality | Synonyms: national flag |
| (noun) a person who holds a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant junior grade | - |
| eyesight | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: seeing, sightedness |
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| fansign | (noun) a sign made by a fan, usually with the target's name on it | - |
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| farsighted | (adjective) able to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: presbyopic |
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| (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted, prospicient |
| farsightedness | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: foresight, prevision, prospicience |
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| (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness |
| (noun) a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 | Synonyms: presbyopia |
| fogsignal | (noun) a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound ships | Synonyms: foghorn |
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| foresight | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresightedness, foresightfulness |
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| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, prevision, prospicience |
| foresighted | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresightful, long, longsighted, prospicient |
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| foresightedness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightfulness |
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| foresightful | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, long, longsighted, prospicient |
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| foresightfulness | (noun) providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: foresight, foresightedness |
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| gunsight | (noun) a sight used for aiming a gun | Synonyms: gun-sight |
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| hindsight | (noun) understanding the nature of an event after it has happened | - |
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| insight | (noun) grasping the inner nature of things intuitively | Synonyms: sixth sense |
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| (noun) the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation | Synonyms: brainstorm, brainwave |
| (noun) clear or deep perception of a situation | Synonyms: penetration |
| (noun) a feeling of understanding | Synonyms: perceptiveness, perceptivity |
| insightful | (adjective) exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception | - |
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| insightfulness | (noun) shrewdness shown by keen insight | Synonyms: acumen |
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| insignia | (noun) a badge worn to show official position | - |
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| insignificance | (noun) the quality of having little or no significance | - |
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| insignificant | (adjective) devoid of importance, meaning, or force | Synonyms: unimportant |
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| (adjective) signifying nothing | - |
| (adjective) of little importance or influence or power; of minor status | Synonyms: peanut |
| (adjective) small and unimpressive | Synonyms: dinky |
| insignificantly | (adverb) not to a significant degree or amount | - |
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| (adverb) in an insignificant manner | - |
| intransigence | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigency |
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| intransigency | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigence |
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| intransigent | (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, adamantine, inexorable |
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| longsighted | (adjective) capable of seeing to a great distance | Synonyms: eagle-eyed, farseeing, keen-sighted |
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| (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, prospicient |
| longsightedness | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia |
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| nearsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, shortsighted |
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| nearsightedness | (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, shortsightedness |
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| nonsignificant | (adjective) attributable to chance | - |
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| oversight | (noun) a mistake resulting from inattention | Synonyms: lapse |
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| (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: superintendence, supervising, supervision |
| (noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: inadvertence |
| reassign | (verb) transfer somebody to a different position or location of work | Synonyms: transfer |
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| reassignment | (noun) assignment to a different duty | - |
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| rectosigmoid | (adjective) of or related to or near the sigmoid colon and the upper part of the rectum | - |
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| redesign | (verb) design anew, make a new design for | - |
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| resign | (verb) accept as inevitable | Synonyms: reconcile, submit |
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| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, release, relinquish |
| (verb) leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily | Synonyms: give up, renounce, vacate |
| (verb) give up or retire from a position | Synonyms: leave office, quit, step down |
| resignation | (noun) the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.) | - |
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| (noun) a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign | - |
| (noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: surrender |
| resignedly | (adverb) with resignation and acceptance; in a resigned manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a hopeless resigned manner | Synonyms: abjectly |
| shortsighted | (adjective) unable to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: myopic, nearsighted |
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| (adjective) lacking foresight or scope | Synonyms: myopic, short, unforesightful |
| (adjective) not given careful consideration | Synonyms: ill-considered, ill-judged, improvident |
| shortsightedness | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: improvidence |
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| (noun) (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred | Synonyms: myopia, nearsightedness |
| sigeh | (noun) a Shiite tradition of temporary marriage permitted in Iran that allows a couple to specify the terms of their relationship; can last from a few minutes to 99 years | - |
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| sigh | (noun) an utterance made by exhaling audibly | Synonyms: suspiration |
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| (noun) a sound like a person sighing | - |
| (verb) heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily | Synonyms: suspire |
| (verb) utter with a sigh | - |
| sight | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: survey, view |
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| (noun) the ability to see; the visual faculty | Synonyms: vision, visual modality, visual sense |
| (noun) an instance of visual perception | - |
| (noun) the range of vision | Synonyms: ken |
| (noun) a range of mental vision | - |
| (noun) a place of interest, especially to visitors | - |
| (noun) anything that is seen | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes | Synonyms: spy |
| (verb) take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device) | - |
| sighted | (adjective) able to see | - |
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| sightedness | (noun) normal use of the faculty of vision | Synonyms: eyesight, seeing |
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| sighting | (noun) the act of observing | - |
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| sightless | (adjective) lacking sight | Synonyms: eyeless, unseeing |
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| sightlessness | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: blindness, cecity |
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| sightly | (adjective) very pleasing to the eye | Synonyms: bonnie, bonny, comely, fair |
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| sightread | (verb) perform music from a score without having seen the score before | Synonyms: sight-read |
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| sightreader | (noun) a performer who reads without preparation or prior acquaintance (as in music) | - |
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| sights | (noun) an optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument | - |
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| sightsee | (verb) visit famous or interesting sights | - |
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| sightseeing | (noun) going about to look at places of interest | Synonyms: rubber-necking |
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| sightseer | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: excursionist, rubberneck, tripper |
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| sightsing | (verb) sing from a score without having seen it before | Synonyms: sight-sing |
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| siglum | (noun) a sign, abbreviation, letter, or character standing for words in ancient manuscripts or on coins or medals. | - |
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| sigma | (noun) the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet | - |
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| sigmoid | (adjective) of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine | Synonyms: sigmoidal |
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| (adjective) curved in two directions (like the letter S) | - |
| sigmoidal | (adjective) of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine | Synonyms: sigmoid |
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| sigmoidectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the sigmoid colon (usually to remove a malignant tumor) | - |
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| sigmoidoscope | (noun) an endoscope (a flexible fiberoptic probe) for examining the sigmoid colon | Synonyms: flexible sigmoidoscope |
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| sigmoidoscopy | (noun) visual examination (with a sigmoidoscope) of the lower third of the colon in a search for polyps | Synonyms: flexible sigmoidoscopy |
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| sign | (adjective) used of the language of the deaf | Synonyms: gestural, sign-language, signed |
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| (noun) structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted | Synonyms: signboard |
| (noun) a public display of a message | - |
| (noun) a gesture that is part of a sign language | - |
| (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: signal, signaling, signalling |
| (noun) a character indicating a relation between quantities | - |
| (noun) a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened) | Synonyms: mark |
| (noun) a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified | - |
| (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: augury, foretoken, preindication |
| (noun) (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided | Synonyms: house, mansion, planetary house, sign of the zodiac, star sign |
| (noun) having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges) | Synonyms: polarity |
| (noun) (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease | - |
| (verb) be engaged by a written agreement | - |
| (verb) communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs | Synonyms: signal, signalise, signalize |
| (verb) mark with one's signature; write one's name (on) | Synonyms: subscribe |
| (verb) make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate | Synonyms: bless |
| (verb) communicate in sign language | - |
| (verb) place signs, as along a road | - |
| (verb) approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation | Synonyms: ratify |
| (verb) engage by written agreement | Synonyms: contract, sign on, sign up |
| signage | (noun) signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters) | - |
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| signal | (adjective) notably out of the ordinary | - |
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| (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signaling, signalling |
| (noun) any incitement to action | - |
| (noun) an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes | - |
| (verb) communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs | Synonyms: sign, signalise, signalize |
| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, indicate, point |
| signaler | (noun) someone who communicates by signals | Synonyms: signaller |
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| signaling | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signal, signalling |
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| signalisation | (noun) a conspicuous indication | Synonyms: signalization |
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| signalise | (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: distinguish, signalize |
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| (verb) communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs | Synonyms: sign, signal, signalize |
| (verb) point out carefully and clearly | Synonyms: call attention, point out, signalize |
| (verb) provide with traffic signals | Synonyms: signalize |
| signalization | (noun) a conspicuous indication | Synonyms: signalisation |
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| signalize | (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: distinguish, signalise |
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| (verb) communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs | Synonyms: sign, signal, signalise |
| (verb) point out carefully and clearly | Synonyms: call attention, point out, signalise |
| (verb) provide with traffic signals | Synonyms: signalise |
| signaller | (noun) someone who communicates by signals | Synonyms: signaler |
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