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/dˈɛzəgnˌeɪt/ /dˈɛzɪgnˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Designate v. t. (past & past part. designated; pres. part. designating)

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.

To call by a distinctive title; to name.

To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; with to or for; as, to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.

Synonyms: To name; denominate; style; entitle; characterize; describe.

adjective

Designate adj. Designated; appointed; chosen. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Designate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... to collect into a permanent substance what must else have gone into oblivion, for no one else could have exhibited even a shadow of it. But now, my dear sir, I hope you are prepared with the philosophy, or by whatever name I should designate the fortitude,—that can patiently bear the frustration of the main immediate purpose of your long and earnest labour.—For you may lay your account that the compiler of the proposed life of Coleridge will admit but a very minor part of what you have thus furnished at his request:—that ...

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— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench

... a patron 'kami,' or 'saint,' enshrined in his house, to which he lays open his necessities and confesses his shortcomings, and by whose intercession with the Supreme Being he trusts at his death to be translated to the regions of the 'kamis,' as they designate their heaven. ...

— Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs • J. M. W. Silver

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... a day when men will curse us because we have not preached more plainly. You can call a spade "a spade" or you can designate it as "an iron utensil employed for excavating purposes," but if you want folks to understand what you are driving at use the ...

— The Heart-Cry of Jesus • Byron J. Rees

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