Definitions for designates

designates des·ig·nate

Spelling: [verb dez-ig-neyt; adjective dez-ig-nit, -neyt]
IPA: /verb ˈdɛz ɪgˌneɪt; adjective ˈdɛz ɪg nɪt, -ˌneɪt/

Designates is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 712 anagrams from letters in designates (adeeginsst).

Definitions for designates

adjective

  1. named or selected for an office, position, etc., but not yet installed (often used in combination following the noun it modifies):

verb (used with object)

  1. to mark or point out; indicate; show; specify.
  2. to denote; indicate; signify.
  3. to name; entitle; style.
  4. to nominate or select for a duty, office, purpose, etc.; appoint; assign.

Origin of designates

1640-50; Latin dēsignātus, past participle of dēsignāre. See design, -ate1

Examples for designates

Bancroft designates it "the best position on the whole coast."

The governor is commissioner for the deaf, and designates and commits them.

"Male efflorescence" is the apt term by which Professor Ward designates it.

He designates an aiming point when the target cannot be seen with the naked eye.

Why may not this man be the same whom Diodorus designates satrap of Cappadocia?

He designates the Igigi as belonging to heaven, the Anunnaki as belonging to the earth.

Sometimes it designates our sensations; at another, the exciting cause of our sensations.

One special light he designates by the old Persian word "Isfahbad."

The problem was that its punchline contained a certain four-letter word beginning with the letter that designates a failing grade.

He designates a man to take his place should he be disabled.

Word Value for designates
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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