Dictionary Definition
designate adj : appointed but not yet installed
in office [syn: designate(ip)]
Verb
1 assign a name or title to [syn: denominate]
2 give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or
assign a task to (a person) [syn: delegate, depute, assign]
3 decree or designate beforehand; "She was
destined to become a great pianist" [syn: destine, fate, doom]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Verb
- 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.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
To mark out and make known; to point out; to
name; to indicate
- Finnish: nimittää, valita
- German: bestimmen, kennzeichnen, markieren, benennen, designieren, signieren
To call by a distinctive title; to name
- Czech: označit
- Finnish: nimittää
- German: designieren, nominieren, nennen
To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty
- Finnish: nimittää
- German: vorsehen, bestimmen, ausersehen, designieren
Translations to be checked
- ttbc Lithuanian: nurodyti, parodyti, pavadinti, paskirti (eiti pareigas, tarnybai)
Italian
Verb
designate- second person plural present tense and imperative of designare
- Feminine plural of designato
Adjective
designate- Feminine plural of designato
Extensive Definition
expert-subject Colombia
Under the
Colombian Constitution of 1886 the Designate was a person--a
member of the Senate
or member of the Cabinet--selected to act as President
when the incumbent was dead, ill or otherwise unable to discharge
the duties of office.
The Designate was elected by the Senate at the
beginning of each Legislature (in Colombian law, a "Legislature" is
approximately equivalent to a session
of the United
States Congress: i.e. it is the one-year period that a Congress
sits for, rather than the whole Congress itself). The Designate
could be indefinitely reelected during only one Presidency.
The concept of the Designate survived until the
Colombian Constitution of 1991, when the office of
Vice President reappeared.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
advert to, allocate, allot, allude to, appoint, apportion, appropriate, assign, baptize, be taken as, call, choose, christen, define, delegate, delineate, denominate, denote, depute, determine, dictate, dub, earmark, elect, emblematize, entitle, figure, finger, fix, identify, indicate, label, make, mark, mean, mention, mete out, name, name for office, nickname, nominate, opt, ordain, ordinate, particularize, pick, pick out, pin down, pinpoint, point at, point out,
point to, propose, put
down, put up, refer to, represent, reserve, run, run for office, select, set, set forth, signify, single, specialize, specify, stand for, state, stigmatize, stipulate, style, submit, symbol, symbolize, tab, tag, tap, term, title, typify, write
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