0 present participle of designate
1 to choose someone officially to do a particular job:
Traditionally, the president designates his or her successor.
[ + to infinitive ] She has been designated to organize the meeting.
This area of the park has been specially designated for children.
They officially designated the area (as) unsuitable for human habitation.
Under a serial-derivational approach, the special status of final consonants is acknowledged by designating them as extrasyllabic during the early stages of derivation.
There were a scarce four predicate nominal tokens, two occupation-status nouns, and one noun designating an institution.
This fact may have consequences in word production, particularly in designating the syllable receiving primary stress.
The point of designating a proxy in an advance directive is to identify the person you want to make your decisions.
This is a generalised representation of late medieval and post-medieval township communities; the criteria for designating 'townships' are to some extent variable.
By this period the phrase ' ' invisible government ' ' had become internalized from designating traitors to the unseen agencies affecting government policy.
In young adolescence, several temporal points designating more complex relationships are marked as events unfold.
This single objective method for designating dominance subdivided an obvious continuum of relative abundance for practical purposes.
