Invite vs Designate - What's the difference?
invite | designate | Related terms |
To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
To request formally.
To encourage.
* 1902 , Roosevelt,
To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
* Milton
* Dryden
* Cowper
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.
Invite is a related term of designate.
As verbs the difference between invite and designate
is that invite is while 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.As an adjective designate is
designated; appointed; chosen.invite
English
Verb
- We invited our friends round for dinner.
- I invite you all to be seated.
- I always invite criticism of my definitions.
- Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
- The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
- to inveigle and invite the unwary sense
- shady groves, that easy sleep invite
- There no delusive hope invites despair.
Synonyms
* (ask for the presence or participation of) ask out * (request formally) ask, beseech, entreat, request * (encourage) ask for, encourage, provokedesignate
English
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.
