Christen vs Designate - What's the difference?
christen | designate | Synonyms |
To perform the religious act of the baptism, to baptise.
To name.
* Bishop Burnet
(obsolete) To Christianize.
(colloquial, usually, Christian) To use for the first time.
Designated; appointed; chosen.
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.
To call by a distinctive title; to name.
* 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
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.
Christen is a synonym of designate.
As a proper noun christen
is , variant of christian.As an adjective designate is
designated; appointed; chosen.As a verb designate is
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.christen
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Alternative forms
* (dialectal) *Verb
(en verb)- Christen the thing what you will.
- (Jeremy Taylor)
Anagrams
* ----designate
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Adjective
(-)Verb
(designat)- "Yes, let 'Sister' Davis have a whack at it too," urged George Bland. Tom Davis, who was Joe Matson's particular chum, was designated "Sister" because, in an incautious moment, when first coming to Excelsior Hall, he had shown a picture of his very pretty sister, Mabel.
