To select and take or approve.
To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
To give (a value) to a variable.
To allot or give (something) as a task.
To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
To categorize (someone) as belonging to the male or female sex.
To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
An assignee.