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designate
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designate someone or something as something
to choose or name someone or something as something. Alice will designate Andrew as our representative. She designated herself as the head of the committee.

a designated driver  (American)
one person in a group who agrees not to drink alcohol in order to drive the other people to and from a place where they will drink alcohol Tom said he'd be the designated driver when we go out tonight.
See also: driver


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The initial laser designators were non-eye-safe lasers developed in the early 70s to aid in the delivery of munitions, such as Hellfire and Copperhead.
It may even signal a break with recent tradition, and drop Cadillac's three-letter model designators for a name from Cadillac's past.
First, the fact that airs do not have frontside or backside designators is meaningless, because it is very common to drop the frontside or the backside when referring to the easier form of the trick (noseblunt rather than a frontside noseblunt slide or a big spin rather than backside big spin).
 
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