英语词汇“designate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

VERB TABLE

designate

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	designate
	he, she, it	designates
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	designated
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have designated
	he, she, it	has designated
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had designated
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will designate
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have designated

Continuous Form
Present	I	am designating
	he, she, it	is designating
	you, we, they	are designating
Past	I, he, she, it	was designating
	you, we, they	were designating
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been designating
	he, she, it	has been designating
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been designating
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be designating
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been designating

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Designate a driver who won't be drinking before going to a party or club.
$6 million has been designated to make road safety improvements on Pacheco Pass.
Mattos Elementary has been designated as this area's "home" school.
One of the queues was designated for people with an EC passport.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Fidel has designated his brother Raul, now head of the armed forces, as his successor.
In this chapter we examine how the female nude became a crucial element in the formation of art designated modern.
Nothing can prepare the initiate for this first breathtaking vision of the planet for which he has been designated steward.
The compound cell is then designated by a combination of the abbreviations applied to the original separate cells.
Three of the children are designated to you as special students.
Why was it designated romantic folly?

Longman Language Activatorto decide to use someone or something for a particular purpose► designate

to officially choose someone or something for a particular purpose, often with the result that they cannot be used for anything else: · Designate a driver who won't be drinking before going to a party or club.designate somebody/something as something: · Mattos Elementary has been designated as this area's "home" school.designate somebody/something for somebody/something: · One of the queues was designated for people with an EC passport.designate somebody/something to do something: · $6 million has been designated to make road safety improvements on Pacheco Pass.

► earmark

to choose someone or something from among a larger group so that they can be used for a particular purpose in the future: earmark somebody/something for something: · 20% of the budget has already been earmarked for a new computer system.earmark somebody/something to do something: · The funds are earmarked to help pay for the cathedral's renovation.earmark somebody/something as something: · Dawson was earmarked as Reiner's successor as District Attorney.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► as

· What is to be understood as female is something vague; indeed the Spirit is often designated as neuter.· These were designated as metropolitan areas and were given a two-tier structure of metropolitan counties and districts.· Further, certain occupations can be designated as reserved for registered disabled.· This style I would designate as above all thorough.· Participants under time pressure had to designate as many pairs as they could as either the same or different.

NOUN► area

· While the area had been designated a National Archaeological Reserve, he expressed fear of looting from the site.· A special area was designated for families.· Most have no-smoking areas or designated smoking rooms, but more than half the companies still without restrictions reported less tolerance for smokers.· But why is that particular area of the cortex designated the auditory cortex?· States dumping sewage in areas not designated as sensitive would have to demonstrate that primary treatment was sufficient to safeguard water quality.· The area is designated under the Ramsar convention as a wetland of international importance.

► authority

· Contracting States are to designate the authorities which consuls may approach.

► conservation

· Some local authorities have designated very few conservation areas.· In 1976 the green was designated a conservation area.· The first was that the site was in an area of the town that was to be designated a conservation area.

► site

· The commission has started legal action against Britain for its failure to designate enough sites.· Environmental groups have criticized the government for failing to designate Ramsar sites quickly enough.

VERB► use

· However, the term is used to designate art that, although increasingly difficult to define, is in a public space.· Bruce should provide help as a run defender while Wallace would be used as a designated pass rusher.· The alphabetical notation used to designate main classes permits many of these to be included, as shown in Figure 14.5.· This term has subsequently been used to designate the marginal group in relation to the dominant order.