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DESTINE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Design or destine

Example:

She was intended to become the director

Synonyms:

designate; destine; intend; specify

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "destine" is one way to...):

plan (make plans for something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "destine"):

mean (destine or designate for a certain purpose)

design (plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect)

slate (designate or schedule)

aim; calculate; direct (specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

destination (the ultimate goal for which something is done)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Decree or designate beforehand

Example:

She was destined to become a great pianist

Synonyms:

designate; destine; doom; fate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "destine" is one way to...):

ordain (issue an order)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Derivation:

destination (the ultimate goal for which something is done)

destination (the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey))

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 Context examples: 

But he was not destined to go far.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was to be a whole-length in water-colours, like Mr. John Knightley's, and was destined, if she could please herself, to hold a very honourable station over the mantelpiece.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was destined that the exciting incidents of that day were even now not at an end.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Come, we will sit there in peace to-night, though we should never more be destined to sit there together.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He is convinced, of course, that he is destined for Westminster Abbey.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But it was destined to be resumed long before that hour, and in circumstances which gave me a shock hardly second to that caused by his spring to the door.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you are destined to be lucky that day, you need not spend a lot. I have no idea which area will bring you cash.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He rode himself within a spear's-length of his standard, clad from neck to foot in steel, but draped in the long linen gown or parement which was destined to be the cause of his death.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I kept thinking over everything that has been ever since Jonathan came to see me in London, and it all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

These are merely a few of the things that went through my mind, and are related for the sake of vindicating myself in advance in the weak and helpless rôle I was destined to play.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)