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des·ig·nate  (dzg-nt)
tr.v. des·ig·nat·ed, des·ig·nat·ing, des·ig·nates
1. To indicate or specify; point out.
2. To give a name or title to; characterize.
3. To select and set aside for a duty, an office, or a purpose. See Synonyms at allocate, appoint.
adj. (-nt)
Appointed but not yet installed in office: the commissioner designate.
[Latin dsignre, dsignt- : d-, de- + signre, to mark (from signum, sign; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots).]
desig·native, desig·na·tory (-n-tôr) adj.
desig·nator n.
designated
adj
(Philosophy / Logic) Logic (of a truth value) corresponding to truth in a two-valued logic, or having one of the analogous values in a many-valued logic


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Comrades of the thunder and companions of death, I cannot but regard it as singularly fortunate that we who by conviction and sympathy are designated by nature as the champions of that fairest of her products, the white metal, should also, by a happy chance, be engaged mostly in the business of mining it.
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He might, perhaps, reckon on the arrival of trains at the designated hours, in Europe, where the distances were relatively moderate; but when he calculated upon crossing India in three days, and the United States in seven, could he rely beyond misgiving upon accomplishing his task?
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As little, I should think, can it matter whether the writer so designated is a man, or a woman, as one or two of my critics profess to have discovered.
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