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designate
/ˈdɛz.ɪɡ.nət/
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What does designate mean?
adjective
- Designated; appointed; chosen.
- Used after a role title to indicate that the person has been selected but has yet to take up the role.
verb
- To mark out and make known; to point out; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description
More meanings (2)
verb
- To call by a distinctive title; to name.
- 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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IPA pronunciation
/ˈdɛz.ɪɡ.nət/
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In society the correlative terms production and consumption, like net product and gross product, designate identically the same thing.
The term is used in strategy to designate masses of troops marching on the same road on different days as well.
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The term DOLICHOCEPHALIC is used to designate a cephalic index of 77.9 and under, and BRACHYCEPHALIC one of 78 and over.
Every colonel of volunteers was allowed to designate for examination for appointment to the regular army the best officers in his regiment.
These examples are sufficient to elucidate the maxims which have been mentioned, and to designate the manner in which they should be used.