单词 | designate |
释义 | designate (once / 368 pages) vadj To designate is to give something a specific status. If you designate your house an opera-free zone, it means that you've officially declared that no opera is allowed to be played there. To give a person or thing an official status is to designate it as something, like when you designate a meeting place if members of your group get lost at the amusement park. Sometimes, it can carry responsibility or an assignment, like when your teammates designate you as the captain. It can also show a category, like when you designate certain books to the humor section of the bookstore where you work. WORD FAMILYdesignate: designated, designates, designating, designation, designative+/designation: designations USAGE EXAMPLESFederal officials said last week that the Valles Caldera National Preserve would become the 17th U.S. park unit with designated thermal features if approved. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Officials say Valles Caldera National Preserve would become the 17th park unit with designated thermal features. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) And those meetings were preceded by meetings of specially designated committees designed to analyze policies and proposals pertaining to certain aspects of county government. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1v design or destine Syn|Hypo|Hyper destine, intend, specify mean destine or designate for a certain purpose designplan something for a specific role or purpose or effect slatedesignate or schedule aim, calculate, directspecifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public plan make plans for something 2v assign a name or title to Syn|Hypo denominate denote be a sign or indication of numbergive numbers to labelassign a label to; designate with a label foliate, page, paginatenumber the pages of a book or manuscript callascribe a quality to or give a name of a common noun that reflects a quality address, directput an address on (an envelope) call, nameassign a specified (usually proper) proper name to brand, denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatizeto accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful 3v give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) Syn|Hypo|Hyper assign, delegate, depute mandate assign authority to castselect to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet postassign to a post; put into a post castassign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors devolvepass on or delegate to another taskassign a task to placeplace somebody in a particular situation or location regimentassign to a regiment reassign, transfertransfer somebody to a different position or location of work delegate, deputetransfer power to someone mandateassign under a mandate advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgradegive a promotion to or assign to a higher position break, bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegateassign to a lower position; reduce in rank placeassign to (a job or a home) recastcast again, in a different role miscastcast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role typecastcast repeatedly in the same kind of role secondtransfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment exchangehand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent tenuregive life-time employment to bring uppromote from a lower position or rank spot promotepromote on the spot ennoble, entitle, gentlegive a title to someone; make someone a member of the nobility sidelineremove from the center of activity or attention; place into an inferior position reducebring to humbler or weaker state or condition favor, favour, preferpromote over another brevetpromote somebody by brevet, in the military appoint, charge assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to 4v indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively Syn|Hypo|Hyper indicate, point, show point indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle fingerindicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments call attention, point out, signalise, signalizepoint out carefully and clearly reflectmanifest or bring back inform impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to 5v decree or designate beforehand Syn|Hyper destine, doom, fate ordain issue an order 6adj appointed but not yet installed in office Syn incoming arriving at a place or position |
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