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Denominate

Definition: Denominate

Denominate

Verb

1. Assign a designation to.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "denominate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Synonym: Denominate

Synonym: designate (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Denominate

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Nomenclature

Verb: name, call, term, denominate designate, style, entitle, clepe, dub, christen, baptize, characterize, specify, define, distinguish by the name of; label; (mark).

Phrase

Verb: express, phrase; word, word it; give words to, give expression to; voice; arrange in words, clothe in words, put into words, express by words; couch in terms; find words to express; speak by the card; call, denominate, designate, dub.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Denominate

English words defined with "denominate": Compound numberDenominated, DenominatingTo call up. (references)
Specialty definitions using "denominate": CHAFO. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Denominate

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

Sri Lanka

Applications for dollar denominate loans from other firms are considered on a case by case basis. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Denominate

Expression using "denominate": denominate number. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Denominate

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  denominate

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Denominate

Language Translations for "denominate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

quaj (account for, call, consider, count, entitle, label, name, nominate, rate, regard), emërtoj (designate). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سمى (designate, name, nominate, style, term, title). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

назовавам (nominate, style, term). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

命名 (Denominated, Denominating, named, Naming, Termed, Terming). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vyznávat. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

noteren (make a note, note, record, register, to denominate, to quote, write down), benoemd getal (denominate number). (various references)

   

French

  

dénommer. (various references)

   

German

  

bezeichnen (betoken, call, denote, describe, designate, epitomize, imply, indicate, label, Mark, mean, signify, term, to designate, to indicate), benennen (call, designate, name, term, to name). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

επονομάζω (dub, nickname, surname). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elnevez (name, title, to christen, to denominate, to name). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menamai. (various references)

   

Italian

  

denominare (be named, call, name). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

名数 (denominate number, number of people). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

めいすう (denominate number, destiny, number of people, span of life). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

이름을 붙이십시". (various references)

   

Manx

  

enmys (address, appoint, baptize, baptize ship, cite, denomination, designate, designation, direct, entitle, enumerate, head, name, nomenclature, nominate, specify, style, superscription, term, terminology, title). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enominateday

   

Portuguese

  

designar (appoint, ascribe, attach, choose, define, design, designate, destine, determine, elect, Mark, name, nominate, pick out, prefer), denominar (call, name), nomear (appoint, assign, call, choose, create, depute, designate, elect, institute, name, nominate, pick out, place, prefer), chamar (appeal to, attract, call, conciliate, court, draw, drew, hailstorm, invoke, summon, to call). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

denumi (call, designate, name, term, title). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

называть (call, entitle, name, title). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

denominovati, imenovati (appoint, designate). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

denominar (denominate currency, designate, name, term). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

beteckna (characterize, denote, designate, imply, indicate, infer, Mark, mean, phrase, qualify, represent, signify), benämna (call, entitle, name, tag, term). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

isim koymak (baptize, christen, name), adlandırmak (call, designate, entitle, intitle, refer to, term). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

іменувати (nominate), виражати (convey, denote, express, say, write), назвати, позначати (appellate, check, denote, designate, earmark, ink, tick off). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Denominate

Derivations

Words beginning with "denominate": denominated, denominates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Denominate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: demotivate, denominata, denominater, renominate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Denominate"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "denominate" (pronounced dunÄ"munā't)
7-n Ä" m u n ā' tnominate.
6-Ä" m u n ā' tdominate, predominate.
5-m u n ā' tcontaminate, culminate, decontaminate, determinate, discriminate, disseminate, eliminate, emanate, exterminate, fulminate, germinate, illuminate, incriminate, inseminate, renominate, ruminate, terminate.
4-u n ā' tagglutinate, alienate, assassinate, carbonate, chlorinate, concatenate, decaffeinate, detonate, fascinate, halogenate, hydrogenate, hyphenate, impersonate, indoctrinate, insubordinate, isocyanate, italianate, marinate, originate, oxygenate, pollinate, procrastinate, rejuvenate, resonate, subordinate, titanate, urinate.
3-n ā' tdesignate, donate, hibernate, impregnate, reincarnate, stagnate.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Denominate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: emendation.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-m-n-n-o-t"

-1 letter: menadione, mentioned, nominated.

-2 letters: anointed, antinode, dementia, demonian, dominant, dominate, nematode, nominate.

-3 letters: adenine, amidone, amniote, anemone, demeton, dentine, eminent, enamine, enation, endnote, etamine, intoned, mannite, matinee, mediant, mediate, mention, montane, neonate, nominee, nonmeat, onetime, tenoned.

-4 letters: aedine, aidmen, amnion, anoint, anomie, anteed, atoned, daemon, daimen, daimon, demean, dement, demote, denote, dentin, detain, diatom.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-m-n-n-o-t"
 

+1 letter: denominated, denominates, emendations, renominated.

 

+2 letters: denominative, prenominated.

 

+3 letters: decontaminate, demyelination, denominatives, determination, nonmyelinated, preordainment, sedimentation.

 

+4 letters: aforementioned, arrondissement, decompensating, decompensation, decontaminated, decontaminates, defeminization, demonetization, demyelinations, depigmentation, determinations, indemonstrable, intermediation, monumentalized, preordainments, recommendation, recontaminated, sedimentations.

 

+5 letters: antidevelopment, arrondissements, codetermination, decompensations, defeminizations, demagnetization, demonetizations, depigmentations, indetermination, indomitableness, intermediations, nonsedimentable, recommendations, redetermination, undemonstrative, underestimation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Denominate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 65 6E 6F 6D 69 6E 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01100101 01101110 01101111 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#110 &#111 &#109 &#105 &#110 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 006E 006F 006D 0069 006E 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38718081797580678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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