designate
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Latin designatus, past participle of designare
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designate (not comparable)
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designate (third-person singular simple present designates, present participle designating, simple past and past participle designated)
- 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.
- 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
- "Yes, let 'Sister' Davis have a whack at it too," urged George Bland. Tom Davis, who was Joe Matson's particular chum, was designated "Sister" because, in an incautious moment, when first coming to Excelsior Hall, he had shown a picture of his very pretty sister, Mabel.
- 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
- 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.
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to mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate
to call by a distinctive title; to name
to indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty
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[edit] External links
- designate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- designate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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designate
- past participle of designar
[edit] Italian
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designate
- second-person plural present tense and imperative of designare
- Feminine plural of designato
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designate
- Feminine plural of designato
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[edit] Latin
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dēsignāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of dēsignō