assign vs install

assign

verb
  • 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. 

noun
  • An assignee. 

install

verb
  • To admit formally into an office, rank or position. 

  • To connect, set up or prepare something for use, often specifically (in Computing) to transfer software onto a device's permanent storage and put it in a state where it is ready to be run when needed, usually decompressing it if necessary and performing any necessary pre-first-run configuration. 

  • To establish or settle in. 

noun
  • An installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of the word installation.) 

  • Installer. A software utility that installs an application. 

How often have the words assign and install occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )