Word Finder - designate

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To mark out and make known; to point out; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description

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to designate the boundaries of a country

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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; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.

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Designated; appointed; chosen.

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Used after a role title to indicate that the person has been selected but has yet to take up the role.

After the word Asia had acquired its larger sense, it was still specially used by the Greeks to designate the country around Ephesus.

These items can end up everywhere in a house if you don't designate a spot for it.

The judges designate one of their number to preside as chief justice.

Play some music, and designate someone to hold a limbo stick for kids to walk under.

Colors were used to designate a branch and, also at times, were used to show that the soldier served in a specific capacity.

Confederate officers wore insignias on their collars to designate rank.

Designate a person who is responsible for managing the intervention and who will do the majority of speaking on behalf of the group.

It is impossible to designate as a concordat the concessions which were wrested by violence from Pius VII.

For this purpose we may designate the points in one figure by letters A, B, C,.

The company also has the right to designate any schedule from the available options from your city.

Its ancient name, though no longer used officially, except to designate a military district, has not been superseded in popular speech by the names of the eight modern divisions.

Causes relating to a Scrutiny (SoKtMavia); especially the Scrutiny, by the Senate, of Officials Designate.

As already explained, the name Austria is used for convenience to designate those portions of the possessions of the house of Habsburg, which were not included by the settlement of 1867 among the lands of the Hungarian crown.

This arrangement seems to have been deliberately made by Schmerling, so as to It is impossible to avoid using the word " Austria " to designate these territories, though it is probably incorrect.

The name Camaroes was also used to designate the neighbouring mountains.

Later she was often identified with Isis, and her name was used to designate foreign goddesses like those of Puoni and Byblus.

During the Saga Age (900-1050), in the beginning of Norse literature, vikingr is not as a rule used to designate any class of men.

The reason for using " viking " in a more generic sense than is warranted by the actual employment of the word in Old Norse literature rests on the fact that we have no other word by which to designate the early Scandinavian pirates of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century.

When Bute retired and George Grenville accepted the cares of official life, the higher post of first lord of the admiralty fell to Townshend's lot, but with his usual impetuosity he presumed to designate one of his satellites, Sir William Burrell (1732-1796), to a place under him at the board, and the refusal to accept the nomination led to his exclusion from the new administration.

The natives designate the Bolivian climatic zones as yungas, valle or medio yungas, cabezera de valle, puna and puna brava.

But the title of emperor was also used in the middle ages, and is still used, in a loose and vague sense, without any ecclesiastical connotation or hint of connexion with Rome (the two attributes which should properly distinguish an emperor), and merely in order to designate a non-European ruler with a large extent of territory.

In Europe, Buddha is used to designate the last historical Buddha, whose family name was Gotama, and who was the son of Suddhodana, one of the chiefs of the tribe of the Sakiyas, one of the republican clans then still existent in India.

But the expression is most frequently used to designate disciplinary laws, in which case canons are distinguished from dogmatic definitions.

In the German Evangelical church the title of abbot (Abt) is sometimes bestowed, like abbe, as an honorary distinction, and sometimes survives to designate the heads of monasteries converted at the Reformation into collegiate foundations.

The amended definition of " designate " also applies to the designation of states or regions under the PCT.

The word Karma, however, is often used to designate only the law's reaction to man's doings.

Ordinarily the term denotes a reincarnate lama, but in the terminology of Tibetan religious art it came to designate any outstandingly inspired artist.

In Australia and Papua the name flying-squirrel is applied to such marsupials as are provided with parachutes; animals which naturalists prefer to designate flying-phalangers (see MARSUPIALIA).

The term is in use in the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland to designate an assistant clergyman, and also to a certain extent in the American Episcopal Church, though "assistant minister" is usually preferred.

The Arabs usually designate Jerusalem by names expressive of holiness, such as Beit el Makdis and El Mukaddis or briefly El Kuds, i.e.

Attention must also be paid to the artificial restrictions of political geography, to the legislative restrictions bearing on labour and trade as imposed in different countries, and, above all, to the incessant fluctuations of the economic conditions of supply and demandand the combinations of capitalists or workers which affect the market.4 The term " applied geography " has been employed to designate commercial geography, the fact being that every aspect of scientific geography may be applied to practical purposes, including the purposes of trade.

It differs from the adder in having the head entirely covered with scales, shields being absent, and in having the snout somewhat turned up. The term "Asp" (á¼â‚¬ÃÆ’πίÏ‚) seems to, have been employed by Greek and Roman writers, and by writers generally down to comparatively recent times, to designate more than one species of serpent; thus the asp, by means of which Cleopatra is said to have ended her life, and so avoided the disgrace of entering Rome a captive, is now generally supposed to have been the cerastes, or horned viper (Cerastes cornutus), of northern Africa and Arabia, a snake about 15 in.

The reference in this passage is plainly to one whom he might well designate as his teacher.

The term parlour bronzes serves to designate objects for domestic use, as flower-vases, incense-burners and alcove ornaments.

For many centuries the word was used to designate any fine powder; its present-day application to the product of the distillation of wine is of comparatively recent date.

In the Kubr-er-Rumia - " grave of the Roman lady " (Roman being used by the Arabs to designate strangers of Christian origin) - the Medrassen and the Jedars, Algeria possesses a remarkable series of sepulchral monuments.

But in Irenaeus the term has already come to designate the whole movement.

To this hour, particularly in Valencia and the Balearics, Lemosi is employed to designate on the one hand the old Catalan and on the other the very artificial and somewhat archaizing idiom which is current in the jochs fiorals; while the spoken dialect is called, according to the localities, Valencid (in Valencia), Major qul and Menorqui (in Majorca and Minorca), or Catald (in Catalonia); the form Catalanesch is obsolete.

You can designate that he has graduated from potty training by creating a great certificate.

Naptime-When you bring your newborn home from the hospital, you may find that it is easier if you designate a place in the living room for your baby to nap, especially if her bedroom is some distance from the main areas of the house.

You can choose a themed basket or designate specific items for the basket of your choice.

Designate only one card for online transactions to minimize electronic exposure.

While some merchants only sell gift cards in specific denominations, other merchants allow the purchasers to designate the amount of the gift as long as it falls within the merchant's minimum and maximum allowable amounts.

If the couple does not choose to designate any or all of their marital property as community property, it remains subject to equitable distribution rules under the law.

They may file joint tax returns, designate each other as insurance beneficiaries, refer to each other as husband or wife in public and commingle their assets.

Designate one night a week to make a new entry and take turns on who gets to write the information, letting her add her personal observations to the events of the past week and comment on people and places.

For example, if you usually go to the bank whenever you receive a check in the mail, store your checks together and designate one day per week as "bank day".

Add shelving above the desk for papers, storage, etc. Find a corner of your living area and designate it office space by adding a desk, chair, and lamp.

An accent wall can help designate an eating area, separating it from the rest of the room.

The programs designate times for parents to visit (as to not interfere with the therapeutic quality of the program).