Crossword clues for designate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Designate \Des"ig*nate\, a. [L. designatus, p. p. of designare.
See Design, v. t.]
Designated; appointed; chosen. [R.]
--Sir G. Buck.
Designate \Des"ig*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Designated; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
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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.
Syn: To name; denominate; style; entitle; characterize; describe.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Latin designatus, past participle of designare (see design (v.)).
As a verb, from 1791, from designate (adj.) or else a back-formation from designation. Related: Designated; designating.
Wiktionary
Designated; appointed; chosen. v
1 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. 2 To call by a distinctive title; to name. 3 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.
WordNet
adj. appointed but not yet installed in office [syn: designate(ip)]
v. assign a name or title to [syn: denominate]
give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) [syn: delegate, depute, assign]
decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist" [syn: destine, fate, doom]
design or destine; "She was intended to become the director" [syn: intend, destine, specify]
Wikipedia
Under the Colombian Constitution of 1886 the Designate was a person—a member of the Senate or member of the Cabinet—selected to act as President when the incumbent was dead, ill or otherwise unable to discharge the duties of office.
The Designate was elected by the Senate at the beginning of each Legislature (in Colombian law, a "Legislature" is approximately equivalent to a session of the United States Congress: i.e. it is the one-year period that a Congress sits for, rather than the whole Congress itself). The Designate could be indefinitely reelected during only one Presidency.
The concept of the Designate survived until the Colombian Constitution of 1991, when the office of Vice President reappeared.
Category:History of Colombia
Usage examples of "designate".
The responsibility of being Adar was overwhelming enough, but becoming the surrogate Prime Designate as well seemed too much.
The mad Designate turned back toward the imagers to look the Adar in the eye.
The disgraced Prime Designate brought three times as many guard kithmen with him as the Adar could possibly have hoped to fight off, especially now that he felt disconnected from the strong foundation of thism.
Since you Marines provide the security for our embassies, I asked General Aguinaldo to designate one of his commanders to do the same for the Ambassador.
In the Long Count, the system of dating used on stelae, this date would be written as 12 baktuns, 18 katuns, 10 tuns, 13 uinals, and 15 kins, designating this day as being 1,861,475 days since the starting point from which the Maya count time.
The drive up the coast to Bangkok took almost ninety minutes, most of it in the express lane of the four-lane highway designated Route 3.
That was his designated target area, all right, but the legs were as thick as tree trunks and had the dull sheen of blued steel.
Actually, there are seven distinct types of botulinum toxin, designated by the letters A through G.
The name of Camarines was at the time used to designate the present town of Camalig and the district near the southern slopes of Mayon Volcano.
As a result, his powerful congressional allies were demanding that President Castilla officially designate the Lazarus Movement as a terrorist organization.
These men will be particularly careful to observe the orders transmitted from time to time, designating the kind of charges required at the guns.
Lord Coman of Kraggen Keep had recently died without designating a successor.
The pencil lines that designated sonar contacts and running torpedoes looked like electrical wire dropped at random on the chart.
There will be literally hundreds of moving courseways crisscrossing and encircling the lobby, each of them ending at a designated elevator.
Well, in step four we arrange for him and the designated best-fuck street guy to stage a bare-knuckle fistfightto the deathin the center aisle of St.