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Designates Synonyms

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Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. assigns
  2. nominates
  3. names
  4. taps
  5. charges
  6. dooms
  7. fates
  8. makes
  9. selects
  10. destines
  11. appoints
Assign a name or title to
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. terms
  2. names
  3. entitles
  4. titles
  5. indicates
  6. signifies
  7. shows
  8. styles
  9. denominates
  10. dubs
  11. denotes
  12. favors
  13. stipulates
  14. stigmatizes
  15. specifies
  16. prefers
  17. chooses
  18. settles
  19. sets
  20. characterizes
  21. selects
  22. nominates
  23. calls
  24. means
  25. marks
  26. earmarks
  27. labels
  28. assigns
  29. points
  30. intends
  31. appoints
  32. identifies
  33. allocates
  34. elects
  35. commissions
  36. christens
  37. circumscribes
  38. authorizes
  39. baptizes
To describe with a word or term
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. terms
  2. tags
  3. styles
  4. names
  5. labels
  6. characterizes
  7. calls
To set aside or apart for a specified purpose
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. earmarks
  2. assigns
  3. appropriates
  4. allocates
Design or destine
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. specifies
  2. shows
  3. destines
  4. marks
  5. indicates
  6. denotes
  7. intends

Designates Sentence Examples

  • The court designates one of its members as president.

  • The second epithet designates its position on a hill, but the first is given it from the market granted to the abbots of St Albans to be kept there, by Henry II.

  • The term morphology, which was introduced into science by Goethe (1817), designates, in the first place, the study of the form and composition of the body and of the parts of which the body may consist; secondly, the relations of the parts of the same body; thirdly, the comparison of the bodies or parts of the bodies of plants of different kinds; fourthly, the study of the development of the body and of its parts (ontogeny); fifthly, the investigation of the historical origin and descent of the body and its parts (phylogeny); and, lastly, the consideration of the relation of the parts of the body to their various functions, a study that is known as organography.

  • The government, national or local, furnishes the borrowing power, and makes the best bargain it can with the men it designates to operate the line.

  • The author designates the story of the later empire at Constantinople (after Heraclius) as " a uniform tale of weakness and misery," a judgment which is entirely false; and in accordance with this doctrine, he makes the empire, which is his proper subject, merely a string for connecting great movements which affected it, such as the Saracen conquests, the Crusades, the Mongol invasions, the Turkish conquests.

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Designates Is Also Mentioned In

  • pronoun
  • address
  • phraseogram
  • arbitration
  • presubscription
  • metaphor
  • fourpenny
  • castle doctrine
  • designator
  • kingdom
  • designation
  • anticodon

Words near Designates in the Thesaurus

  • desiccation
  • desideratum
  • desiderius erasmus
  • design
  • designate
  • designated
  • designates
  • designating
  • designation
  • designations
  • designative
  • designatory
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