All 3 Uses of
designate
in
The Fountainhead
- There are, however, occasions when we are forced to acknowledge the promise of an approach—brilliantly close—to what we designate loosely by the term of greatness.†
Chpt 2.3
- We create emptiness through which certain physical bodies are to move—we shall designate them for convenience as humans.†
Chpt 2.8 *
- But this boy was a comrade-in-arms, hurt in battle, and Roark stood over him, feeling a strange new thing, a desire to lift him in his arms and carry him to safety…Only the hell and the safety had no known designations…He kept thinking of Kent Lansing, trying to remember something Kent Lansing had said… Then Mallory opened his eyes, and lifted himself up on one elbow.†
Chpt 2.11
Definition:
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(designate as in: designated driver) assign someone or something for a particular purpose