destinate
English
Etymology
Latin destinatus. Computing use by analogy with originate.
Verb
destinate (third-person singular simple present destinates, present participle destinating, simple past and past participle destinated)
- To destine, to choose.
- (possibly nonstandard) To set a destination for (something), to send (something) to a particular destination.
- 1997 September 11, "Tom Watson", Hoe does FX work?, in comp.dcom.telecom.tech, Usenet:
- Now days, it can probably be done with a programming setup in the originating/destinating switches, and not involve a full time channel.
- 1997 September 11, "Tom Watson", Hoe does FX work?, in comp.dcom.telecom.tech, Usenet:
- (possibly nonstandard) To be scheduled to arrive at, as a destination.
- 2009, Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Prices for a mail piece weighing up to a half-pound range from $12.60 if it destinates in zones 1 and 2 to $19.50 if it destinates in zone 8.
- 2009, Statistical Abstract of the United States
Synonyms
- (choose; set destination): destine
Antonyms
- (set destination): originate
Adjective
destinate (comparative more destinate, superlative most destinate)
- determined
- (obsolete) destined
- John Foxe
- They hold, moreover, to be no purgatory, nor that the suffrages of the church do avail the dead, either to lessen the pain of them that be destinate to hell, or to increase the glory of them that be ordained to salvation.
- John Foxe
Related terms
- destination
- destine
- destiny
Anagrams
- detainest, tetanised
Italian
Adjective
destinate
- Feminine plural of adjective destinato.
Participle
destinate f pl
- feminine plural of destinato
Verb
destinate
- inflection of destinare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Anagrams
- sdentiate
- stendiate
Latin
Verb
dēstināte
- second-person plural present active imperative of dēstinō
Participle
dēstināte
- vocative masculine singular of dēstinātus
References
- destinate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- destinate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette