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Delegate vs Nominate - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between delegate and nominate

is that delegate is to authorize someone to be a delegate while nominate is to name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.

As a noun delegate

is a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.

As an adjective nominate is

nominotypical.

delegate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
  • a representative at a conference, etc.
  • (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies
  • (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer

    • Synonyms

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    Verb

    (delegat)
  • to authorize someone to be a delegate
  • to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
  • (computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of yours

    • nominate

    English

    Verb

    (nominat)
  • To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.
  • (obsolete) To entitle, confer a name upon.
  • * 1658': the City of ''Norwich'' [...] was enlarged, builded and '''nominated by the ''Saxons''. — Sir Thomas Browne, ''Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 12)

    • Synonyms

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    Adjective

    (-)
  • (zoology) nominotypical
    • the nominate subspecies

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