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Nominate vs Deligate - What's the difference?

nominate | deligate |

As verbs the difference between nominate and deligate

is that nominate is to name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office while deligate is (surgery|dated|transitive) to bind up; to bandage.

As an adjective nominate

is (zoology) nominotypical.

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

    * (l)

    Adjective

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

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    deligate

    English

    Verb

    (deligat)
  • (surgery, dated, transitive) To bind up; to bandage.
  • * 1851 , The Medical examiner, and record of medical science: Volume 7 (page 322)
    • Every one is aware of the uncertainty as well as great danger of the different cutting and deligating operations for the removal of this distressing infirmity.
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