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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Designate \Des"ig*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Designated}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Designating}.]
     1. To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to
        indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description;
        to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country;
        to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.
  
     2. To call by a distinctive title; to name.
  
     3. To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to
        or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a
        post or station.
  
     Syn: To name; denominate; style; entitle; characterize;
          describe.

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