Synonyms of the word appoint


APPOINTCHARGE - CONSTITUTE - EQUIP - ESTABLISH - FIT - FOUND - INSTITUTE - NAME - NOMINATE - OUTFIT - PLANT

appoint

  • v. (transitive) To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting…
  • v. (transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).
  • v. (transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings…
  • v. (transitive) To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
  • v. (transitive, law) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.

charge

  • n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
  • n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
  • n. A load or burden; cargo.
  • n. The amount of money levied for a service.
  • n. An instruction.
  • n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
  • n. An accusation.
  • n. An electric charge.
  • n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
  • n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
  • n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
  • n. A forceful forward movement.
  • n. A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
  • n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
  • n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
  • n. (historical or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds;…
  • n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
  • v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
  • v. (transitive) To assign (a debit) to an account.
  • v. (transitive) To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
  • v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
  • v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
  • v. To impute or ascribe.
  • v. To call to account; to challenge.
  • v. (transitive) To place a burden or load on or in.
  • v. (transitive) To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose…
  • v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
  • v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog…

constitute

  • v. To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
  • v. To make up; to compose; to form.
  • v. To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
  • n. (obsolete) An established law.

equip

  • v. (transitive) To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever…
  • v. (transitive) To dress up; to array; accouter.
  • v. (transitive) To prepare (someone) with a skill.

establish

  • v. (transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.
  • v. (transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
  • v. (transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
  • v. (transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.

fit

  • adj. Suitable, proper.
  • adj. Adapted to a purpose or environment.
  • adj. In good shape; physically well.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Good looking, fanciable, attractive, beautiful.
  • adj. Prepared; ready.
  • v. (transitive) To be suitable for.
  • v. (transitive) To conform to in size and shape.
  • v. (intransitive) To be of the right size and shape.
  • v. (transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape.
  • v. (transitive) To be in agreement with.
  • v. (transitive) To adjust.
  • v. (transitive) To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
  • v. (transitive) To equip or supply.
  • v. (transitive) To make ready.
  • v. (intransitive, archaic) To be seemly.
  • v. To be proper or becoming.
  • v. (intransitive) To be in harmony.
  • n. The degree to which something fits.
  • n. Conformity of elements one to another.
  • n. The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
  • n. (advertising) how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
  • n. (statistics) goodness of fit.
  • n. (archaic) A section of a poem or ballad.
  • n. A seizure or convulsion.
  • n. (medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
  • n. A sudden outburst of emotion.
  • n. A sudden burst (of an activity).
  • v. (intransitive, medicine) To suffer a fit.

found

  • n. Food and lodging, board.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of find.
  • v. To begin building.
  • v. To start some type of organization or company.
  • v. To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
  • v. To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
  • n. A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

institute

  • n. An organization founded to promote a cause.
  • n. An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects.
  • n. The building housing such an institution.
  • n. (obsolete) The act of instituting; institution.
  • n. (obsolete) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law, habit, or custom.
  • n. (law, Scotland) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
  • v. (transitive) To begin or initiate (something); to found.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To train, instruct.
  • v. To nominate; to appoint.
  • v. (ecclesiastical, law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
  • adj. (obsolete) Established; organized; founded.

name

  • n. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
  • n. Reputation.
  • n. An abusive or insulting epithet.
  • n. A person (or legal person).
  • n. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
  • n. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
  • n. (Britain, finance) An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
  • v. (transitive) To give a name to.
  • v. (transitive) To mention, specify.
  • v. (transitive) To identify as relevant or important.
  • v. (transitive) To publicly implicate.
  • v. (transitive) To designate for a role.
  • n. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

nominate

  • v. To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.
  • v. (obsolete) To entitle, confer a name upon.
  • adj. (zoology) nominotypical.

outfit

  • n. A set of clothing (with accessories).
  • n. Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
  • n. Any cohesive group of people; a unit; such as a military company.
  • n. (informal) A business or firm.
  • n. (sports) A sports team.
  • n. (statistics) An outlier-sensitive fit.
  • v. (transitive) To provide with, usually for a specific purpose.

plant

  • n. (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically…
  • n. (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae; now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land…
  • n. (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have…
  • n. (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including…
  • n. A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
  • n. An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
  • n. Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
  • n. A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
  • n. (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the…
  • n. (uncountable) Machinery, such as the kind used in earthmoving or construction.
  • n. (obsolete) A young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff.
  • n. (obsolete) The sole of the foot.
  • n. (dated, slang) A plan; a swindle; a trick.
  • n. An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
  • n. (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
  • v. (transitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
  • v. (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
  • v. (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
  • v. To place in the ground.
  • v. To furnish or supply with plants.
  • v. To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
  • v. To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
  • v. To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
  • v. To set up; to install; to instate.

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