Nominate
['nɒmɪneɪt] or ['nɑmɪnet]
Definition
(verb.) propose as a candidate for some honor.
(verb.) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position; 'The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission'.
Editor: Maggie--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To mention by name; to name.
(v. t.) To call; to entitle; to denominate.
(v. t.) To set down in express terms; to state.
(v. t.) To name, or designate by name, for an office or place; to appoint; esp., to name as a candidate for an election, choice, or appointment; to propose by name, or offer the name of, as a candidate for an office or place.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Name for an office, propose as a candidate, designate for appointment or election.
Typist: Millie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Name, specify, appoint, individualize, define, invest, present, entitle
ANT:Suggest, indicate, conjecture, describe, recal, deprive, cancel, withdraw,divert
Checker: Muriel
Definition
v.t. to name: to mention by name: to appoint: to propose by name as for an office or for an appointment.—adv. Nom′inātely by name.—ns. Nom′inātion the act or power of nominating: state of being nominated; Nom′inātion-game in billiards a game in which the player has to name beforehand what stroke he is leading.—adjs. Nominātī′val; Nom′inātive naming: (gram.) applied to the case of the subject.—n. the naming case the case in which the subject is expressed.—adv. Nom′inātively.—n. Nom′inātor one who nominates.—Nominative absolute a grammatical construction in which we have a subject (noun or pronoun) combined with a participle but not connected with a finite verb or governed by any other words as 'All being well I will come.'
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Unserious Contents or Definition
v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbing and deadcatting of the opposition.
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Examples
- The National Whig Convention, to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President, met at Baltimore on May 1, 1844. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I did at one time mean, said Miss Flite, echoing the sigh, to nominate, constitute, and appoint poor Gridley. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You must nominate me, Lionel; Ryland, for shame, cannot shew himself; but you, my friend, will do me this service? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- We will nominate Adrian, and do our best to bestow on him the power to which he is entitled by his birth, and which he merits through his virtues. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He wished, too, that the officers should be appointed altogether by himself, and not be nominated by the people, as the bill had proposed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But we were nominated at the same time for the United States service, and both our commissions bore date May 17th, 1861. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The day before the convention met Morse had arranged with Vail that certain signals should mean that certain candidates had been nominated. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Terry had been nominated for major-general, but had not been confirmed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is safe with me, said the Outlaw, so be that this thy scroll produce the sum therein nominated and set down. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- General Taylor was nominated in 1848, and was elected. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Nominated, constituted, and appointed him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Four years later General Scott received the nomination but was badly beaten, and the party nominating him died with his defeat. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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