designating
Meaning
of Designate
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
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On Tuesday I went around San Francisco dressed in overalls designating large parts of it as legal graffiti areas.
After initially designating 1750 as its founding date, Penn later considered 1749 to be its founding date for more than a century, including alumni observing a centennial celebration in 1849.
Etymology The Oxford English Dictionary derives the word from two Old English forms: "hoar" ("white," "light-colored," as in "hoarfrost") and "hune" a word of unknown origin designating a class of herbs or plants.
As the path weight to "jump" must effectively be "free", the value zero (0) could be used to represent this cost—if zero is not being used for another purpose already (such as designating invalid paths).
But the same compound is also given a technical meaning in the Yoga Sutras (2.1), designating the "practical" aspects of the philosophy, i.e. the "union with the supreme" due to performance of duties in everyday life Whicher, p. 6–7.
By a special state law, Amherst's town meeting is modified from the traditional, by designating ten precincts, each with 24 elected representatives.