festlegen — meaning in English
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English meaning
- appoint verb To choose someone officially for a job or role.
- commit verb To carry out a crime, mistake, or wrongdoing.
- determine verb To find out or establish something for certain, usually by investigation.
- establish verb To set something up so firmly that it becomes permanent or generally accepted.
- frame noun A rigid structure that supports or surrounds something, such as a picture, window, or building.
- ordain verb To prearrange unalterably.
- set verb To put something in a particular place or position.
Senses
festlegen is used for these senses in English:
- appoint (transitive, legal) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
- appoint (obsolete, transitive) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
- commit (ambitransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)
- determine To resolve (to do something); to establish a fixed intention; to cause (something) to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead.
- establish (transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to demonstrate.
- frame (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
- frame (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
- ordain To prearrange unalterably.
appoint — full definition
- verb To choose someone officially for a job or role.
- verb To set or fix a time or place for something, such as a meeting.
commit — full definition
- verb To carry out a crime, mistake, or wrongdoing.
- verb To pledge or bind oneself to a course of action.
- verb To save a set of changes permanently, especially in software or version control.