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designate
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designate as in:  designated driver

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I'll be the designated driver.
designated = assigned (for a particular purpose)
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    The Red Cross designated this building as a shelter.
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    The legislation designates $10 million in funding for...
    designates = assigns (for a particular purpose)
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    The area was designated as a wildlife refuge.
    designated = assigned (for a particular purpose)
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    It's not safe to swim outside of the designated area.
    designated = assigned (for a particular purpose)
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    Its designation was S14A316, but I'd renamed it Falco, after the Austrian rap star.†  (source)
    designation = to assign someone or something for a particular purpose
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Migrants will often designate one person to look out for trouble while the others rest.†  (source)
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    The United Nations announced they were designating 10 November, one month and a day after the shooting, Malala Day.  (source)
    designating = assigning to (a name)
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    "Not yet," said Tummeler, "as a number of designates such as y'rselves are only just arrived, and the Council at Paralon asked ol' Tummeler to escort any last-minute princely sorts and emissaries as may be expectin' to attend."†  (source)
    designates = assigns someone or something for a particular purpose
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    Most of them didn't have the additional designations like Aris and Minho, just the property line.†  (source)
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    And since class rank in ROTC is composed of excellence in Academics, in Leadership, and in Physical Fitness, Owen Meany—just that simply—failed to get a number-one ranking; his choice of a "combat arms designator" was, therefore, not assured.†  (source)
    designator = someone who assigns someone or something for a particular purpose
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    Wednesday and Saturday were the designated meeting days, from three in the afternoon until five.  (source)
    designated = assigned or chosen
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    "The professional designation has also been removed from the nameplate of the lawyer around the corner," Fisch continued.†  (source)
    designation = to assign someone or something for a particular purpose
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    I am the Duke's only ....companion, the mother of his heir-designate.†  (source)
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designate as in:  designated by a star on the map

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State capital cities are designated on the map by stars.
designated = signified (indicated in a particular way)
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    The rank of sergeant is designated by three chevrons (inverted Vs) on the shoulder.
    designated = indicated (shown in a particular way)
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    The little girl nodded and looked down at herself, at the jacket with its row of large buttons that designated her as a Seven.  (source)
    designated = indicated
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    The military had officially declared Louie, and all the other crewmen, dead. ... The notice had been generated as a bureaucratic matter of course, a designation made for all missing servicemen after thirteen months had passed.  (source)
    designation = official status
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    It is to be a kitchen election: since no one can read, every candidate is designated by a symbol.  (source)
    designated = signified (indicated in a particular way)
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    "Usually when the UnDead sleep at home," as he spoke he made a comprehensive sweep of his arm to designate what to a vampire was 'home', "their face show what they are, but this so sweet that was when she not UnDead she go back to the nothings of the common dead."  (source)
    designate = indicate (show or point to)
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    On December 24, 1948, as the occupation began to wind down, General MacArthur declared a "Christmas amnesty" for the last seventeen men awaiting trial for Class A war crimes, the designation for those who had guided the war.  (source)
    designation = official term (signifying something)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    There were twelve monkey rooms in the monkey house, and they were designated by the letters A through L. Two of the monkeys that arrived on October 4 were dead in their crates.  (source)
    designated = signified (indicated in a particular way)
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    What was called the People in the most democratic republics of antiquity, was very unlike what we designate by that term.  (source)
    designate = indicate
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    I always called them by their designation in the family, the first uncle, the second aunt, my grandma.  (source)
    designation = a specific title or label used to identify someone’s role or position
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    In the future, the defendant should be designated by the name under which the indictment was drawn.  (source)
    designated = referred to
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    The French created a word on purpose to designate the servants of the aristocracy—they called them lackeys.  (source)
    designate = label
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    One of his distant relatives, Madame la Comtesse de Lo, rarely allowed an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she designated as "the expectations" of her three sons.  (source)
    designated = called
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    Among the fishermen, he is indiscriminately designated by all the following titles: The Whale; the Greenland Whale; the Black Whale; the Great Whale; the True Whale; the Right Whale.  (source)
    designated = referred to
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