Canadian English Meaning of designate

designate

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Definitions and Meaning of designate in English

Wordnet

designate (v)

assign a name or title to

give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively

decree or designate beforehand

design or destine

Wordnet

designate (s)

appointed but not yet installed in office

Webster

designate (v. t.)

Designated; appointed; chosen.

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.

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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