appoint
/əˈpɔɪnt/ verb B1- 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).
He/she/it appoints · Past appointed · Past participle appointed · -ing form appointing
Verb forms
- Base form
- appoint
- He/she/it
- appoints
- Past
- appointed
- Past participle
- appointed
- -ing form
- appointing
From the library
On the day appointed for the race the two started together.
“They are on the track of the man who appointed the meeting with him.”
Morrel was there; he had come twenty minutes before the time appointed.
Well, by means of these lines, which are in accordance with the double motion of the earth, and the ellipse it describes round the sun, I am enabled to ascertain the precise hour with more minuteness than if I possessed a watch; for that might be broken or deranged in its movements, while the sun and earth never vary in their appointed paths.”
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