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Designate

Designated; appointed; chosen.

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Similar meaning 2

Incoming 84% connected

Coming in; accruing.

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Incoming 84% connected

Coming in; accruing.

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Manner of action 32

Advance 76% connected

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

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Agree 76% connected

In good part; kindly.

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Aim 76% connected

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a f…

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Bump 76% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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Calculate 76% connected

To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.

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Cast 76% connected

of Cast

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Delegate 76% connected

Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

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Denote 76% connected

To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Depute 76% connected

To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.

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Design 76% connected

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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Devolve 76% connected

To roll onward or downward; to pass on.

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Direct 76% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Elevate 76% connected

Elevated; raised aloft.

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Finger 76% connected

One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.

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Label 76% connected

A tassel.

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Mandate 76% connected

An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

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Mean 76% connected

To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?

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Number 76% connected

That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage m…

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Post 76% connected

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.

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Promote 76% connected

To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance…

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Reassign 76% connected

To assign back or again; to transfer back what has been assigned.

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Reflect 76% connected

To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays o…

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Regiment 76% connected

Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen.

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Relegate 76% connected

To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.

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Signalize 76% connected

To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

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Slate 76% connected

An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.

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Task 76% connected

Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.

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Transfer 76% connected

To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…

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Broader term 7

Appoint 76% connected

To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.

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Assign 76% connected

To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

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Attribute 76% connected

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Inform 76% connected

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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Ordain 76% connected

To set in order; to arrange according to rule; to regulate; to set; to establish.

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Plan 76% connected

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation o…

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Derivationally related 14

Delegacy 74% connected

The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power.

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Delegacy 74% connected

The act of delegating, or state of being delegated; deputed power.

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Delegate 74% connected

Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

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Delegate 74% connected

Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

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Delegation 74% connected

The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.

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Delegation 74% connected

The act of delegating, or investing with authority to act for another; the appointment of a delegate or delegates.

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Denomination 74% connected

The act of naming or designating.

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Denomination 74% connected

The act of naming or designating.

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Designation 74% connected

The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.

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Designation 74% connected

The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.

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Fate 74% connected

A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence…

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Fate 74% connected

A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Pointer 74% connected

One who, or that which, points.

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Pointer 74% connected

One who, or that which, points.

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Synonym 12

Assign 92% connected

To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

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Delegate 92% connected

Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Denominate 92% connected

To give a name to; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Depute 92% connected

To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Destine 92% connected

To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Doom 92% connected

Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fate 92% connected

A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Indicate 92% connected

To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.

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Intend 92% connected

To stretch' to extend; to distend.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Point 92% connected

To appoint.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Show 92% connected

To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Specify 92% connected

To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to speci…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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