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nombrar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • appoint verb To choose someone officially for a job or role.
  • call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  • establish verb To set something up so firmly that it becomes permanent or generally accepted.
  • name noun A word or phrase used to identify a specific person, place, or thing.

Senses

nombrar is used for these senses in English:

  • appoint (transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
  • call To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.
  • establish (transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
  • name (transitive) To mention, specify.
  • name (transitive) To publicly implicate by name.

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.

call — full definition

  1. verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  2. verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
  3. verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
  4. verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
  5. noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.

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