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Definition: Destined |
DestinedAdjective1. Headed or intending to head in a certain direction; "children bound for school"; "a flight destined for New York"; often used as a combining form; "school-bound children"; "college-bound high school students". 2. (usually followed by `to') governed by fate; "bound to happen"; "an old house destined to be demolished"; "he is destined to be famous". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "destined" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: DestinedSynonyms: bound (adj), bound(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Destiny | Adjective: impending; Verb: destined; about to be, happen; coming, in store, to come, going to happen, instant, at hand, near; near, close at hand; over hanging, hanging over one's head, imminent; brewing, preparing, forthcoming; int he wind, on the cards, in reserve; that will, is to be; in prospect; (expected); looming in the distance, horizon, future; unborn, in embryo; int he womb of time, futurity; pregnant; (producing). |
Futurity | Come on, draw on; draw near; approach, await, threaten; impend; (be destined). |
Necessity | Verb: lie under a necessity; befated, be doomed, be destined; in for, under the necessity of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's fate; n. to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner, to be unable to help. |
Fated; destined; Verb: elect; spellbound | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Destined |
| English words defined with "destined": Boun, bound ♦ certain ♦ designate, Destinate, destine, doom, doomed ♦ fate ♦ lost ♦ Medusa bud, Myoepithelial ♦ Ooecium ♦ plenarily, probable, providentially ♦ royal jelly ♦ Spermoblast, sure ♦ Wages fund, Winter egg. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "destined": accumulating society ♦ Block Stowage ♦ Central Cord Syndrome, CFS, Chip Jewelry, Consular Invoice, Continuous inspection, Cow-calf operator, CYMBOPOGON NARDUS ♦ either end hop off, Electricity, Endoplasmic Reticulum, Rough ♦ home agent ♦ Massacre of the Innocents ♦ Oil on Troubled Waters, Overland Common Point ♦ point-to-point mobile originated short message service ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, ROOSEVELT ♦ Valkyriur. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "destined": Destine. (references) |
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Screenplays | Is it fate? Is it meant to be? Is it written in the stars that we are destined to fraternize (The Mask; writing credit: Michael Fallon; Mark Verheiden) Either way, we were destined to end up like this (Cowboy Bebop; writing credit: Akihiko Inari) You were destined to die, it was written (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) I'Ve Always felt that I was destined for some great achievement, what I don't know (Patton; writing credit: Ladislas Farago; Omar N. Bradley) Any relationship founded on lies is destined to fail (Smallville; writing credit: Richard Pinto; Sharat Sardana) | |
Lyrics | Destined to do what they do (Like I Love You; performing artist: Justin Timberlake) Sometimes people just destined (Like I Love You; performing artist: Justin Timberlake) | |
Clever | Some succeed because they are destined to. But most succeed because they are determined to. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Destined to Live (1988) | |
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 | Checking up. The man-sized cradle for a 16-inch gun, barbette carriage, is inspected in an eastern arsenal. This part is destined for one of the big guns required by the war program. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A Liberty ship carrying supplies destined for Russia docked at a port in the Middle East. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | American seaman giving a haircut to a fellow member of the crew as they pull in to unload their freight which is destined for Russia somewhere in the Middle East. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Bernard Iddings Bell | To be artist and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today. |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | No wind favors him who has no destined port. |
Peter Ustinov | Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. |
Richard Carlile | Be assured that it is pamphlet-reading that is destined to work the great necessary moral and political changes among mankind. |
Simon Bolivar | The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty. |
Voltaire | Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. |
William Blake | The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | For the rest, so little do they conceal the reactionary character of their criticism that their chief accusation against the bourgeoisie amounts to this, that under the bourgeois regime a class is being developed, which is destined to cut up root and branch the old order of society. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The wind is blowing, that dark ship must keep on her destined course |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Even though the pains of hell were not so terrible as they are yet they would become infinite as they are destined to last for ever |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | They are destined, I trust, to assist at the raising of loftier structures one day. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Dr. Hassold explained that cells destined to become sperm or eggs undergo a process known as meiosis. (references) | |
Cells destined to become immune cells, like all blood cells, arise in the bone marrow from so-called stem cells. (references) | ||
New and improved technologies or markers with predictive value for prospective identification of infants destined to develop ALTE (including apnea of infancy) and SIDS need to be identified. (references) | ||
Business | An estimated 1 and a half million vehicles are destined to be scrapped. (references) | |
Chemical products are destined for end-users in a wide range of industrial sectors. (references) | ||
Of the total annual investment received, 80 percent is foreign and destined to manufacturing. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | United Arab Emirates | Academic materials destined for schools in the country are subject to censorship. (references) |
Benin | As of December, the Government had accepted 1,186 refugees and asylees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and 486 others destined for eventual resettlement in another country. (references) | |
Burundi | While there is no law that accords tax exemptions to religious groups, the Government often waives taxes on imported religious articles used by churches and also often waives taxes on the importation by churches of goods destined for social development purposes. (references) | |
Economic History | Australia | Of these, 500,000 are destined for the consumer desktop sector. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | They are destined to assume increasing importance in the Ivoirian economy. (references) | |
Jordan | Without calm in the region, economic growth seems destined to stay below its potential. (references) | |
Human Rights | Sri Lanka | The security forces routinely open mail destined for LTTE-controlled areas and seize contraband. (references) |
Political Economy | SPAIN | Most of this trade is destined for Eastern Europe or North Africa. (references) |
CHILE | A maximum of $15 million yearly will be destined for this purpose. (references) | |
Trade | Mauritius | Goods destined for re-export normally enter duty-free. (references) |
Botswana | Previously, goods destined for export to SACU were zero rated, as were goods in transit through South Africa. (references) | |
Hungary | Other products destined for industrial production, such as raw materials, will need a waiver of certification. (references) | |
Travel | Ecuador | However, large amounts of exhibition materials should be marked as samples with no commercial value destined for seminars/fairs. (references) |
Worker Rights | Guinea | The authorities released 33 young girls, who were destined for Europe, to the Nigerian Embassy. (references) |
Burkina Faso | During the year, the authorities intercepted a number of children destined for plantations in Cote d'Ivoire, and the traffickers were arrested. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else. It is the same thing as lightning, and its famous attempt to strike Dr. Franklin is one of the most picturesque incidents in that great and good man's career. The memory of Dr. Franklin is justly held in great reverence, particularly in France, where a waxen effigy of him was recently on exhibition, bearing the following touching account of his life and services to science: "Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered." Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of its economical application to some purposes is still unsettled, but experiment has already proved that it will propel a street car better than a gas jet and give more light than a horse. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Paul McCartney | We don't not get along. But you know, it's like some people you may be destined to not become great buddies with. So it's not that we don't get along, just we don't talk much. You know, we talk if we have to. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | The agent destined to reside in Great Britain declining to accept the appointment, the business has consequently devolved on the minister of the United States in London, and will command his attention until a new agent shall be appointed. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | This foundation would have the advantage of being independent of war, which may suspend other improvements by requiring for its own purposes the resources destined for them. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | There the benevolent may endeavor to teach them the arts of civilization, and, by promoting union and harmony among them, to raise up an interesting commonwealth, destined to perpetuate the race and to attest the humanity and justice of this Government. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | But as events have shown, there was nothing foolish in my prediction that communism wa destined for the ash-heap of history. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | In the Middle East, where Arabs and Jews who once seemed destined to fight forever now share knowledge and resources, and even dreams. |
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| "Destined" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 72.95% of the time. "Destined" is used about 498 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 72.95% | 364 | 14,842 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 25.85% | 129 | 28,132 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.2% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 498 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "destined": be destined ♦ be destined for smth. ♦ destined for ♦ destined for heaven. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "destined": bulk-destined, divinely-destined, malta-destined, pre-destined. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "destined"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i paracaktuar (designed, fated, prearranged). (various references) | |
Arabic | معد (catching, catchy, communicable, contagious, designed, infectious, intended, preparator, prepared, ready, transmissible). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отреден, предопределен (fated), писан (many-colored, motley, written). (various references) | |
Chinese | 注定 (Destine, Destining, Doomed, Dooming). (various references) | |
Czech | urèený (designate, stated). (various references) | |
Danish | drikkevarer til personalebrug (drink destined for domestic consumption), den sidste operation skal give produktet dets mekaniske brugsegenskaber:slutgloedning for plader,der er bestemt til senere dybtraekning eller falsning og afsluttende koldvalsning for plader med hoej flydegraense til konstruktionsformaal (the last operation which the sheet undergoes decides the mechanical properties it will have in use: sheets destined for subsequent forming operations such as deep-drawing or bending are given a final anneal, whereas constructional sheet of high yield strength is given a final workhardening), valsetraad til traadtraekning, bestemt til bratkoeling, til varmebehandling og til fabrikation af elektroder (head treatment and manufacture of electrodes, wire rod for drawing destined for cold heating), staal beregnet til forarbejdning ved traekning, saenksmedning eller maskinsmedning (drop forging or mechanical forging, steel destined to be shaped by drawing), saaledes opnaar man en relativt ren skal af stoerknet metal-dette er faktisk et af de maal,der tilstraebes med denne forarbejdningsmetode:et meget formbart yderlag ved staal til dybtraekning eller til traadtraekning (in fact, one of the objects of this method of steelmaking, so as to have a ductile skin on steels destined for deep-drawing or wire drawing), saa foelger en normalisering,der har kornforfining som formaal (the second is a normalizing treatment destined to refine the grain), rosiner (grape destined to be dried, raisin), OECD-klassifikationsliste over affald bestemt til nyttiggørelse (OECD classification list of wastes destined for recovery operations), aktivitet,der skal strukturere enhedsmarkedet (activity destined to structure the single market). (various references) | |
Dutch | de laatste behandeling die de plaat ondergaat,bepaalt de mechanische eigenschappen in het gebruik;platen die voor latere vormgevingsprocessen,zoals dieptrekken en buigen,gebruikt worden,krijgen een eindgloeiing,terwijl constructiestaal met een hoge rekgre (the last operation which the sheet undergoes decides the mechanical properties it will have in use: sheets destined for subsequent forming operations such as deep-drawing or bending are given a final anneal, whereas constructional sheet of high yield strength is given a final workhardening), daarna volgt normaalgloeien dat ertoe dient de korrel te verfijnen (the second is a normalizing treatment destined to refine the grain), walsdraad voor draadtrekken, bestemd voor koudstuiken, voor warmtebehandeling en voor elektroden (head treatment and manufacture of electrodes, wire rod for drawing destined for cold heating), voor het drogen bestemde druif (grape destined to be dried), staal bestemd voor vormgeving door trekken, matrijssmeden of machinaal smeden (drop forging or mechanical forging, steel destined to be shaped by drawing), op deze wijze wordt een relatief zuivere mantel verkregen;overigens is dit één van de oogmerken die men bij deze verwerkingsmethode voor heeft:een ductiele mantel voor staalsoorten geschikt voor dieptrekken of draadtrekken (in fact, one of the objects of this method of steelmaking, so as to have a ductile skin on steels destined for deep-drawing or wire drawing), OESO-indeling van afvalstoffen bestemd voor nuttige toepassing (OECD classification list of wastes destined for recovery operations), activiteit die bijdraagt tot de structurering van de interne markt (activity destined to structure the single market). (various references) | |
French | décidée (determinately). (various references) | |
German | bestimmte (appointed, designated, determinately, ordained, prearranged). (various references) | |
Greek | προοριζόμενος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מיוע" (bound, designate, elected, intended), מזומן (prepared, ready), צפוי (anticipated, coating, cover, expected, facing, foreseen, in prospect, incrustation, liable, lid, overlaying, plating, predictable). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szánt (plough, plow, till, to ear, to follow the plough, to furrow, to plough, to plow). (various references) | |
Italian | scritto (in writing, work, writ, writing, written), fatale (fatal, fated, fateful, inevitable). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 運命的 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | う"めいてき. (various references) | |
Korean | 해진. (various references) | |
Norwegian | forutbestemt. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | estinedday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | destinado. (various references) | |
Romanian | sorocit (foredoomed), predestinat (fated, fateful, foredoomed). (various references) | |
Russian | предназначенный (asgd assigned, designed). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | suđen (fated), predodređen (predestined). (various references) | |
Spanish | destinado (bound, earmarked). (various references) | |
Swedish | destinerad (bound), förutbestämd, ämnad. (various references) | |
Turkish | kaderinde var olan, alnında yazan. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | debeam, debeamus, debeant, debeas, debeat, debeatis, debebantur, debebat, debebatis, debebunt, debemus, debent, debenti, debentur, debeo, debere, deberent, deberet, deberetis, debes, debet, debetis, debetur, debita, debitam, debitos, debitum, debueras, debuerat, debueratis, debuere, debueritis, debui, debuimus, debuisti, debuit, nascantur, nascatur, nascebantur, nascemini, nascendi, nascentia, nascentur, nascerentur, nascetur, nasci, nascitur, nascuntur, nata, natae, nataeque, natas, natham, nati, natique, natis, nato, natorum, natos, natosque, natu, natum, natura, naturae, naturam, naturas, natus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "destined": predestined. (additional references) | |
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"Destined" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Davstone, Deschanel, desgined, desiend, desine, destane, destene, desteni, Destina, destinee, destiner, destiney, destino, distened, Durstine, Edstone, gesteine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "destined" (pronounced de"stund) |
| 7 | d e" s t u n d | predestined. |
| 4 | -t u n d | brightened, buttoned, cottoned, lightened, disheartened, enlightened, fattened, flattened, frightened, heartened, heightened, shortened, straightened, sweetened, threatened, tightened, unbuttoned, unenlightened. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cushioned, dampened, darkened, decommissioned, deepened, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, likened, listened, livened, loosened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, strengthened, summoned, thickened, thousand, toughened, unburdened, undetermined, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-i-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: destine, distend, endited, endites, teddies. | |
-2 letters: denied, denies, dented, dienes, dieted, dinted, eddies, edited, endite, indeed, nested, seined, sended, teinds, tended, tensed. | |
-3 letters: deeds, deets, deist, denes, dense, dents, didst, diene, diets, dined, dines, dints, dites, edits, ended, inset, needs, neist, nided, nides, nites, seine, sente, senti, sided, sited, snide, steed, stein, stied. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-i-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: dendrites, destained, dissented, distended, intendeds, mistended. | |
+2 letters: bestridden, designated, hiddenites, indigested, sedimented, undigested, unsteadied. | |
+3 letters: definitudes, desalinated, disentailed, disentitled, disinfected, disinfested, disinterred, disinvested, disobedient, disoriented, endopodites, outdesigned, predestined, splendidest, studiedness. | |
+4 letters: absentminded, administered, debridements, depredations, desensitized, desiderating, desideration, detailedness, directedness, disconcerted, disconnected, discontented, disenchanted, disendowment, disentangled, disheartened, disinherited, dislodgement, disseminated, indebtedness, independents, interdepends, intermeddles, masterminded, overstridden, postdeadline, rediscounted, rodenticides, unadvertised, undershirted, understudied, understudies, undesignated. | |
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