📚 Designate, verb. 🔉 /ˈdɛzɪɡneɪt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Officially give a specified status or name to. ❗️ Examples: 1. The Wye Valley is designated an area of outstanding natural beauty. 2. Certain schools are designated ‘science schools’ 3. The engineering status will be designated to the school from September. 4. We follow the general rules of zebrafish nomenclature for designating locus and allele names. 5. Perhaps it might increase the awareness of the problem if we were officially to designate a day in the year in testimony to them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic