Assign
Cast
Cast verb - Select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet.
Usage example: He cast a young woman in the role of Desdemona
Assign is a synonym for cast in choose topic. Sometimes you can use "Assign" instead a verb "Cast", if it concerns topics such as allot, lay, select for activity.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- If you then cast Magic Arrow again, your Constitution will underflow, and roll over to the absolute maximum (which is far above the max you can assign in character creation).
Source: Good Bad Bugs / Roguelike -
Animation Bump: A rather odd example—While it wasn't uncommon for films like this to assign an animator to a character, Helga's animation is considerably much more fluid than the rest of the cast.
- Much like Gundam and their tendency to cast Daisuke Namikawa as their would-be Scrappies, Tales has a recurring gag to assign English dub VA Liam O'Brien as the Smug Snake minor villain that could end up as a Hate Sink.
Source: Running Gag / Video Games
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