Sentence examples for to designate something from inspiring English sources

The metaphors are also unknown and unusual, because a usual, well-known word is used to designate something other than its usual designation (see below §8.2).

When the English abandoned it for biscuit the Americans stuck to cracker, and used biscuit to designate something else.

She picked up their Valley Girl lingo, using "phat," "pimp," and "da bomb" to designate something cool.

A key principle here is to identify the constraints of the domain in which a term is used to designate something and to specify any distinguishing characteristics.

But no part of the representation that is the possible world in question, or any other possible world, may serve as the object which the pronoun 'it' in (b) designates, as the pronoun needs to designate something that is said to be a human finger but no part of any such representation is said to be a human finger.

Unlike the first scenario, the second allows that mental state terms may actually designate something real it's just that what they designate turn out to be brain states, which will be more accurately described using the terminology of the relevant sciences.

Why designate something an AONB and then run a major thing right through the middle of it?" Even supporters have concerns.

One might say that the phase sortal baby could designate something through the whole of its existence if, for example, a human being died at the age of six months and hence never got beyond babyhood.

Bars use different terms to describe these drinks, but many are shying away from terms like "soft-tail" and "mocktail". The latter word especially irritates a lot of bartenders: "Mock" designates something as fake; the verb refers to the expression of contempt.

Similarly, the Polynesian tapu ("tabu") designated something as not "free" for common use.

It contains a new term, the word 'I', which designates something very complicated.