Difference between Assign and Impute

Assign

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An assignee.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To designate or set apart something for some purpose. To appoint or select someone for some office. To allot or give something as a task. To attribute or sort something into categories. To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.

Impute

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To reckon as pertaining or attributable; to charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense.To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us.To take account of; to consider; to regard.To attribute or credit to.To attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source.