Sample Sentences for
designate
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(editor-reviewed)

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)
    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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    I am the Duke's only ....companion, the mother of his heir-designate.†  (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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    That is why the word compassion generally inspires suspicion; it designates what is considered an inferior, second-rate sentiment that has little to do with love.†  (source)
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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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    I unpacked the lightweight laser designator (AN/PED-1 LLDR), which wasn't very lightweight, while DJ covered our perimeter.†  (source)
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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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    This applies, in particular, to the designation "planets."†  (source)
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    We wear seven different colors, to designate our jobs.†  (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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    "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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    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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    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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    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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    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
    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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    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)
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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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    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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    This horrible place contained fifty cells; their inhabitants were designated by the numbers of their cell, and the unhappy young man was no longer called Edmond Dantes—he was now number 34.  (source)
    designated = referred to
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    In the future, the defendant should be designated by the name under which the indictment was drawn.  (source)
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