appoint
Meaning
- To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
- To name (someone to a post or role).
- To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
- To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
- To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
- (obsolete) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
- (obsolete) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.
Synonyms
tie on
pose as
fix upon
name to
agree upon
commision
stick to the pan
give a name to
give orders
install in office
put in a suitable position
kit up
cause to work
engage upon
give a mission
nommer
nombrar
ernennen
benoemenFrequency
Hyphenated as
ap‧point
Pronounced as (IPA)
/əˈpɔɪnt/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”) (French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”)), from Late Latin appunctare (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”). See point.
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