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designate English

Meaning designate meaning

What does designate mean?
Definitions in simple English

designate Adjective

— Designate is used after a role title to indicate that the person has been selected but has yet to take up the role.

designate Verb

— If someone is designated to take up a post or position, they are chosen officially to take up the role. — If a place is designated, it is officially allocated to a particular character or purpose. Please return the trolleys to the designated bays after use.

designate

— verb assign a name or title to — verb (= assign) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) — adjective appointed but not yet installed in office — verb (= intend, destine) design or destine She was intended to become the director — verb (= indicate, point, show) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively I showed the customer the glove section He pointed to the empty parking space he indicated his opponents — verb (= destine) decree or designate beforehand She was destined to become a great pianist

Synonyms designate synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as designate?

designate English » English

name appoint call assign indicate nominate denote specify denominate show mark destine ordain dub delegate select point label intend entitle elect earmark determine depute define choose allocate suggest prescribe point out opt manifest give a name to appropriate title think of term signify set prescription place pick out pick order motion fix fate doom display detail

Topics designate topics

What do people use designate to talk about?
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Choose
Social behavior Authority Exercise authority

Appoint, delegate

Conjugation designate conjugation

How do you conjugate designate?

designate · verb

Examples designate examples

How do I use designate in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Designate theatre area Red Zone, rest of Emergency Department Amber.
He's what we designate as the crummy, moronic type.
If the senator designate presents himself at the desk, the oath will be administered.
The designate has no voice until the oath of office has been administered.
Those we do not designate will leave immediately.
On the nights and at the hours which I shall designate.
Today I shall designate as Queen the daughter who loves me, her King and Father best.
Designate the least important.
And we designate our beloved Marta. to be our consort.
And we further designate Captain James Kirk of the star ship Enterprise. to be our heir apparent.
It should be government policy to designate road haulage as freight transport.
I urge you to send him he will be tormented and obsessed. and body, mind, consciousness and the five senses to follow. him that I will designate.
The next time we meet, it will be in Thailand with the Special Ops designate who runs the operation.
Designate the finger.
Briefly, we wish to engage your services to take someone from England and deliver him to a place we shall designate.
Deputy Designate Moreau of the National Assembly, if you please.
I have only one demand, and that is for the great Don Quixote to retire to his village for the term I'll designate.
Would my lord the Duke of Burgundy please designate the last fighter to pit against the knight of Neuville.
And we designate our beloved Marta to be our consort.
We further designate Captain Kirk of the Enterprise to be our heir apparent.
Zenbra will soon designate a successor to whom he will transfer a secret list of the opium farms, transportation routes, carriers, and corrupt officials through which he operates.
I'll designate you my chief of staff, so you'd better be good to me.
Perhaps as Cabinet Secretary designate I should suggest some Lightening of the load.
Then, six hours later, designate me as your attorney.
We designate Captain Tadamori for this campaign, because of his bravery and his humility at the time of his return from the western seas.
Ivan, we need this man, and it alone can designate you.
Chance will designate the murderer.
There the relations of production know an unrivalled harmony, and the proletariat bears only a faint resemblance to what we ordinarily designate by it.
Let's carry on. We must designate someone to operate the plan.
The reason he wants to dissolve history is so he can elect another, so that he himself can designate the thinkers of the future.
Tomorrow, without fail, you must deliver one billion pesos To our place that I designate.
Designate contact number Sierra 3-5.
Designate a gift that certain people have.

News and current affairs

Moreover, the IMF can designate a country with a strong balance-of-payments position to provide the liquidity that another member needs.
In light of the technical realities, it would have been more accurate to designate the difficult and openly acknowledged enrichment activity as the nuclear weapons program, for this is what can supply the guts of an atomic bomb.
When the world's nations decided in favor of the creation of an independent Jewish state, they did not designate it only for the 600,000 Jews then living there.
There is, indeed, a growing belief that Kim Jong-il might, at any moment, designate Kim Kyong-hui to serve as a caretaker for the third-generation successor after his death.
It would also designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group and impose further limits on exports to the country's civil aviation industry.

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