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Definition of Designate

1. Verb. Assign a name or title to.

2. Adjective. Appointed but not yet installed in office.

3. Verb. Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person). "They designate him to write the letter"

4. Verb. Indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively. ; "He indicated his opponents"

5. Verb. Decree or designate beforehand. "She was destined to become a great pianist"

6. Verb. Design or destine. "She was intended to become the director"

Definition of Designate

1. a. Designated; appointed; chosen.

2. v. t. To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.

Definition of Designate

1. Adjective. Designated; appointed; chosen. ¹

2. Verb. To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested. ¹

3. Verb. To call by a distinctive title; to name. ¹

4. Verb. To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Designate

1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Designate

desight desights design design'd design-by-contract programming design by contract design criteria design critique design denture design load

design pattern design patterns design to cost designable designata designate (current term) designate(ip) designated designated driver designated drivers

designated hitter designated hitters designated survivor designates designating designation designations designative designator designators

Literary usage of Designate

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1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"To repeat again, we consider th« lern formulated in the preceding qi as a transcendental one, and we therefore, designate the theories con in the answers to ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... and hence the place assigned to the word heart in symbolic language, as also the use of the same word to designate those things symbolized by the heart. ..."

3. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"I will proceed to designate the proper officers to carry the stipulations into effect " RE LEB, " Lieutenant-General US GRANT." " General. ..."

4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"It is in common use to designate a person engaged in some useless or dishonest ... Fake is also so used and also to designate the quality of such business. ..."

5. A New Logic by Charles Arthur Mercier (1912)
"THE designate QUANTITY. If a Class term is preceded by a sign of quantity, it becomes a designate term, for the sign designates the quantity that is to be ..."

6. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"... dollar twenty-year endowment policy upon his life, dated October 20, 1900, naming his wife beneficiary but reserving the right to designate another. ..."

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