Designation
[dezɪg'neɪʃ(ə)n] or [,dɛzɪɡ'neʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.
(n.) Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.
(n.) That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
(n.) Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Indication, specification.[2]. Kind, class, description.[3]. Name, appellation, title, style, denomination, EPITHET.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DESIGNATE]
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Examples
- Then if there be any city which may be described as master of its own pleasures and desires, and master of itself, ours may claim such a designation? Plato. The Republic.
- He seemed about to dispute this designation of himself when he was seized with a violent fit of coughing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Work which remains permeated with the play attitude is art--in quality if not in conventional designation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I writed some words to Signor Panco,' an air of novelty came over Mr Pancks with this designation, 'to come and help. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The nineteenth century has been characterised as the scientific century of glass, and the term commercial, may well be added to that designation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Among these were the name of a banking-house in New South Wales, where a sum of money was, and the designation of certain lands of considerable value. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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