 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
designation
noun
1: identifying word or words by which someone or something is
called and classified or distinguished from others [syn:
{appellation}, {denomination}, {appellative}]
2: the act of putting a person into a non-elective position;
"the appointment had to be approved by the whole
committee" [syn: {appointment}, {assignment}, {naming}]
3: the act of designating or identifying something [syn: {identification}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Designation \Des'ig*na"tion\, noun [L. designatio: cf. F.
d['e]signation.]
1. The act of designating; a pointing out or showing;
indication.
2. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment;
direction.
3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name;
distinctive title; appellation.
The usual designation of the days of the week.
--Whewell.
4. Use or application; import; intention; signification, as
of a word or phrase.
Finite and infinite seem . . . to be attributed
primarily, in their first designation, only to those
things which have parts. --Locke.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "designation":
allocation, appellation, appellative, appointment, assignment,
attribution, baptism, binomen, binomial name, blood, brand, breed,
byword, calling, cast, character, characterization, christening,
clan, classification, cognomen, color, cryptonym, definition,
denomination, denotation, description, determination,
differentiation, disclosure, empty title, epithet, eponym, euonym,
expression, feather, fingering, fixing, form, genre, genus, grain,
handle, hint, honorific, hyponym, identification, ilk, indication,
indicativeness, kidney, kin, kind, label, line, lot, make,
manifestation, manner, mark, meaning, mold, moniker, name,
namesake, naming, nature, nicknaming, nomen, nomen nudum,
nomination, number, ordainment, ordination, persuasion, phylum,
picking out, pigeonhole, pigeonholing, pinning down, pointing,
pointing out, pointing to, posting, precision, proper name,
proper noun, proposal, race, recognition, scientific name,
secret name, selection, shape, show, showing, signification, sort,
species, specification, stamp, stipulation, strain, stripe, style,
styling, suggestion, symptomaticness, tabbing, tag, tautonym,
terming, the like of, the likes of, title, transferral, tribe,
trinomen, trinomial name, type, variety
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