Nominate vs Recommend - What's the difference?
nominate | recommend |
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)
(zoology) nominotypical
To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
To advise, propose, counsel favorably
(archaic) To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations
As verbs the difference between nominate and recommend
is that nominate is to name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office while recommend is to bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.As an adjective nominate
is nominotypical.nominate
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* (l)Adjective
(-)- the nominate subspecies
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* ----recommend
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(en verb)- The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.
- The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
- ''A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery