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Designate   /dˈɛzəgnˌeɪt/  /dˈɛzɪgnˌeɪt/   Listen
Designate

verb
(past & past part. designated; pres. part. designating)
1.
Assign a name or title to.  Synonym: denominate.
2.
Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person).  Synonyms: assign, delegate, depute.
3.
Indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively.  Synonyms: indicate, point, show.  "He pointed to the empty parking space" , "He indicated his opponents"
4.
Decree or designate beforehand.  Synonyms: destine, doom, fate.
5.
Design or destine.  Synonyms: destine, intend, specify.
adjective
1.
Appointed but not yet installed in office.





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"Designate" Quotes from Famous Books



... originally given by the founder of a linguistic group to designate it as a family or stock of languages shall be permanently retained to the ...
— Seventh Annual Report • Various
... should be so simplified that any person, in any part of the United States, may order from any commercial port or country any article desired and be able to receive it and pay the prescribed duty, at any considerable port or city in the United States that he may designate. ...
— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman
... division by paragraphs to be necessary only up to this point, because we had to treat of the elementary conceptions. As we now proceed to the exposition of the employment of these, I shall not designate the chapters in ...
— The Critique of Pure Reason • Immanuel Kant
... (15) Expressions used to designate the Bible or any particular division of it begin with a capital; as, "Holy Writ, The Sacred Book, Holy Book, God's Word, Old Testament, New Testament, Gospel of St. Matthew, Seven ...
— How to Speak and Write Correctly • Joseph Devlin
... nearly five years in many cases, and was accounted a leading advocate, I specially concerned myself in conducting the great cause on behalf of Sicily—the trial of Verres—when I and Hortensius were AEdile and Consul designate. ...
— Life of Cicero - Volume One • Anthony Trollope


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