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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nominate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be nominated for an award (also be up for an awardinformal) (= to be chosen as one of the people, films etc that could receive an award)
▪ Four films have been nominated for the award.
▪ The book is up for an award.
nominate/put up a candidate (=put forward a candidate)
▪ Any member may nominate a candidate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ Those independent films' directors were also nominated, and they combined for a total of 31 nominations.
▪ He is also nominated for an Academy Award.
▪ They also nominated reliable people to take over prefectures and senior posts in the central ministries in Paris.
■ NOUN
academy
▪ He is also nominated for an Academy Award.
award
▪ Nearly 500 families were nominated for the award and the Williams were selected from a shortlist of 12.
▪ The recording was nominated for a Grammy Award for best classical album.
▪ An avid Everton supporter, Christopher was nominated for the award by a teacher.
▪ Mary Cormack was nominated for the award by her daughter.
▪ He is also nominated for an Academy Award.
candidate
▪ On Aug. 19 Bush was formally nominated as presidential candidate by the 2,210 delegates.
▪ Their national nominating conventions no longer nominate presidential candidates.
▪ White House press secretary Michael McCurry said Clinton does not intend to nominate another candidate for surgeon general.
▪ Both Major and Hurd were then immediately nominated as candidates for the second round, while Heseltine was also renominated.
▪ It was the last national convention that required more than a single ballot to nominate a presidential candidate.
▪ Parliament asked Shahroudi to nominate other candidates and he submitted four names, including two men already rejected by parliament.
▪ Any corporate member of a branch may nominate a candidate.
director
▪ Steven Soderbergh, nominated as best director for both Traffic and Erin Brockovich, won for the former.
▪ The only black nominated was director Diane Houston for a live-action short film.
▪ Chosen Heritage nominates a local funeral director.
▪ The retired Joseph N.. Cassese, who had been the president of Mediplex, is nominated as a director.
member
▪ If fewer than three nominations are received, Council will nominate sufficient members to fill the vacancies in accordance with Bylaw 41. 6.
▪ Nevertheless, we support the creation of the body, provided that it is guaranteed that member states can nominate members.
minister
▪ Lukanov had yet to nominate ministers for three portfolios.
oscar
▪ He was nominated for an Oscar eight times - not many actors have achieved that.
▪ Current release Howard's End, in which he plays an evil father, also has been nominated for an Oscar.
▪ Mr Depardieu had been nominated for an Oscar.
party
▪ I was drawn to Laurie at first meeting, when the local Co-operative Party nominated him as candidate for the 1959 general election.
▪ For a leading Democrat to chastise his own party at its own nominating convention was a remarkable political feat.
▪ Perot claims he is serving as a stand-in for whomever the Reform Party nominates at its Labor Day convention.
▪ In 1960, young Democrats had taken over the party by nominating John E Kennedy for the presidency.
▪ The Reform Party began the nominating process by mailing a candidate-preference survey to its members in the past several weeks.
picture
▪ Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
president
▪ The Assembly nominates the President who is confirmed by popular referendum for a six-year term.
▪ Looks like the Democrats nominated their president yesterday, Frankhn D.. Roosevelt.
▪ The federal judiciary in the United States is nominated by the President and appointed with the consent of the Senate.
▪ The advisers would be overseen by an investment board nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
▪ In addition to the 400 elected members of the Dewan, 100 members were nominated by the President.
▪ It was Cecil who wrote columns for community newspapers nominating Bombeck for president.
▪ The secretary was therefore directed to write to the Duke of Northumberland, asking permission to nominate him as president.
▪ Members of the cabinet are nominated by the president, but their appointments have to be confirmed by the Senate.
successor
▪ Clinton has yet to nominate a successor for Fed Gov.
▪ The president has not nominated a successor to Kessler.
■ VERB
ask
▪ Huggins periodically asks store managers to nominate 10 chocolates for oblivion to make room for new products.
▪ In the true spirit of empowerment, the company is asking its employees to nominate the recipients.
▪ The secretary was therefore directed to write to the Duke of Northumberland, asking permission to nominate him as president.
▪ The commission has contacted the Ramsar Bureau asking it to nominate hydrologists to carry out an independent survey of the scheme.
▪ Last week, I asked readers to nominate which character they would vote out of the soaps.
▪ In early 1966 Hayes was asked to nominate any prisoners he felt should be transferred to these new secure prisons.
▪ Since centres would be the best judged to make this kind of judgement, colleges were asked to nominate potential prizewinners.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ By now it was clear that Bush was going to be nominated for President.
▪ I was nominated as chairman.
▪ It was expected that he would nominate Bramwell as his successor.
▪ Jane Campion was one of the people nominated for the 'Best Director' award.
▪ Lee was the first Chinese American nominated to head the Civil Rights Division.
▪ Mills is expected to be formally nominated to the board next month.
▪ The President has power to nominate people to certain key offices, including judge of the Supreme Court.
▪ The series has never won an Emmy, though it has been nominated repeatedly.
▪ They nominated her as the British spokesperson at the International Arms Conference.
▪ We need a treasurer. Does anyone want to nominate somebody?
▪ Whoever is nominated today will go forward to the leadership elections.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although he had been nominated as a conservative by Protestant Unionists within the constituency, he had quickly become an O'Neill supporter.
▪ It was then that the Democrats met in Baltimore to nominate Andrew Jackson for a second term.
▪ Perrier invited consumers to nominate the restaurant they believed deserved the title of Best Restaurant of the Year in late 1990.
▪ The advisers would be overseen by an investment board nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
▪ The only black nominated was director Diane Houston for a live-action short film.
▪ Then another six are chosen whom anybody can nominate.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nominate

Nominate \Nom"i*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nominated; p. pr. & vb. n. Nominating.] [L. nominatus, p. p. of nominare to nominate, fr. nomen name. See Name.]

  1. To mention by name; to name. [Obs.]

    To nominate them all, it is impossible.
    --Shak.

  2. To call; to entitle; to denominate. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

  3. To set down in express terms; to state. [Obs.]

    Is it so nominated in the bond?
    --Shak.

  4. To name, or designate by name, for an office or place; to appoint; esp., to name as a candidate for an election, choice, or appointment; to propose by name, or offer the name of, as a candidate for an office or place.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nominate

1540s, "to call by name," back-formation from nomination or else from Latin nominatus, past participle of nominare "to name, call by name, give a name to," also "name for office,"" from nomen "name" (see name (n.)). Later "to appoint to some office or duty" (1560s); "to formally enter (someone) as a candidate for election" (c.1600). It also occasionally was used from c.1600 with a sense "give a name to." Related: Nominated; nominating.

Wiktionary
nominate
  1. (context zoology English) nominotypical v

  2. 1 To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office. 2 (context obsolete English) To entitle, confer a name upon.

WordNet
nominate
  1. v. propose as a candidate for some honor [syn: put up, put forward]

  2. put forward; nominate for appointment to an office; "The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission" [syn: propose]

  3. charge with a function; charge to be; "She was named Head of the Committee"; "She was made president of the club" [syn: name, make]

  4. create and charge with a task or function; "nominate a committee" [syn: appoint, name, constitute]

Wikipedia
NOMINATE (scaling method)

NOMINATE (an acronym for Nominal Three-Step Estimation) is a multidimensional scaling application developed by political scientists Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal in the early 1980s to analyze preferential and choice data, such as legislative roll-call voting behavior. As computing capabilities grew, Poole and Rosenthal developed multiple iterations of their NOMINATE procedure: the original D-NOMINATE method, W-NOMINATE, and most recently DW-NOMINATE (for dynamic, weighted NOMINATE). In 2009, Poole and Rosenthal were named the first recipients of the Society for Political Methodology's Best Statistical Software Award for their development of NOMINATE, a recognition conferred to "individual(s) for developing statistical software that makes a significant research contribution."

Usage examples of "nominate".

He would be officially nominated for the Ambassadorship by Ra-ghoratrei, but the nomination must be approved by the Federation Council.

President Clinton nominated Inman to replace Les Aspin as secretary of defense.

Goldsborough, of the navy, was nominated to the Senate for continuance as the flag-officer in command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, which recently rendered such important service to the Union in the expedition to the coast of North Carolina.

This last commission, having been issued during the recess of the Senate, expired at the end of the succeeding session, 17th July, 1862, from which date, not having been nominated to the Senate, he ceased to be a commander in the navy.

We hereby nominate our faithful charger Copula Felix hereditary Grand Vizier and announce that we have this day repudiated our former spouse and have bestowed our royal hand upon the princess Selene, the splendour of night.

And when a young Haitian-born lawyer was nominated to the same Bayfront Trust, Dawkins similarly questioned the color of his skin.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

Once a new idea or discovery was nominated, the internal Lucent business groups were given first priority over the technology.

We ranges up and down and backward and forward over the main trunk lines and the branches of the victual subject, and Mame leads the game, for she is apprised in the ramifications of grub, and the dishes she nominates aggravates my yearnings.

Orkid had been told by Usharna that Northam had not nominated Powl as his successor.

Davis came to the aid of his Kentucky colleague by moving an amendment, to come in as an additional Article, being a new plan of Presidential election designed to do away with the quadrennial Presidential campaign before the People by giving to each State the right to nominate one candidate, and leaving it to a Convention of both Houses of Congress-- and, in case of disagreement, to the Supreme Court of the United States --to elect a President and a Vice-President.

Beltway insiders dismissed Breland as a light-weight and discounted his chances of making it as far as the nominating convention, he was good copy - as quotable as he was quixotic.

Melanie Rawn and Kate Elliott, which was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 1997.

Finally she nominated Rial to speak for the Lirin, citing his knowledge of the details of the war and his current status as viceroy of Tyrian.

In 1663, Sprat was nominated for membership in the Royal Society with the provision that he would write a history of the Society to help it defend itself against its religious detractors.