0 past simple and past participle of designate --
1 to choose someone officially to do a particular job: --
They officially designated the area (as) unsuitable for human habitation.
This area of the park has been specially designated for children.
[ + to infinitive ] She has been designated to organize the meeting.
Traditionally, the president designates his or her successor.
In the evaluation design, the designated number of participants should be geared to the goals of the evaluation.
Several cages were designated for breeding colonies and contained females and males.
Fortunately, in the matter at hand - designated 'ad longum' parts - we are faced with a repertory that is relatively circumscribed in chronology and provenance.
They prefer the concentration of structure that accompanies an intersection or monosyllabic foot to be as near as possible to the designated edge of alignment.
Eighteen bilinguals with ranks at the middle of the range were designated balanced.
If plaintiffs lived in remote villages, they had to make overnight trips to the yamen courts in designated cities.
This act designated certain cities as provincial capitals and also encouraged the administrative specialization of the various municipal governments, which affected local employment.
An intersection at the designated edge produces the same violations as a monosyllabic foot.
