Difference between Delegate and Designate

What is the difference between Delegate and Designate?

Delegate as a verb is to authorize someone to be a delegate while Designate as a verb is to mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.

Delegate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to authorize someone to be a delegate to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of yours

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy a representative at a conference, etc. an appointed representative in some legislative bodies a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer

Example sentence: One of the things that I want to make sure everybody understands is that when you delegate the authority, you have to set the standard.

Designate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Designated; appointed; chosen.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.To call by a distinctive title; to name.To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.

We hope you now know whether to use Delegate or Designate in your sentence.

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