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designar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • appoint verb To choose someone officially for a job or role.
  • appropriate adj Suitable or correct for a particular situation.
  • assign verb To give a specific task, role, or place to someone.
  • designate verb To officially choose or name someone or something for a particular role or purpose.
  • hail noun Small, hard balls of ice that fall from the sky during a storm.

Senses

designar is used for these senses in English:

  • appropriate (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
  • assign (transitive) To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
  • assign (transitive) To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
  • assign (transitive) To allot or give (something) as a task.
  • hail (transitive) To name; to designate; to call.

appoint — full definition

  1. verb To choose someone officially for a job or role.
  2. verb To set or fix a time or place for something, such as a meeting.

appropriate — full definition

  1. adj Suitable or correct for a particular situation.
  2. verb To take something for one's own use, often without permission.

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