designate
designate is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.To call by a distinctive title; to name.
- 3.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agnomen
- all
- and
- antonomasia
- antonym
- arrange
- baptism
- baptize
- bean
- by-name
- byword
- call
- cant
- caption
- card
- characterize
- christen
- circumlocution
- clepe
- clothe
- cognomen
- cognominal
- cognomination
- compellation
- convertible
- couch
- define
- denominate
- denomination
- description
- designation
- distinguish
- dub
- empty
- entitle
- epithet
- eponym
- express
- expression
- fairly
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is designate.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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