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setting apart
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allocation, setting aside |
| Synonyms: | allotment, allowance, apportionment, assignment, budgeting, concession, donation, earmarking, endowing, funding, giving, grant, provision, setting apart, sponsoring, stipend, stipulation, subsidy |
| Antonyms: | keeping, refusal, rejection |
| Main Entry: | call |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demand or announce action |
| Synonyms: | appeal to, appoint, ask, challenge, charge, claim, command, declare, decree, elect, entreat, exact, ordain, order, postulate, pray to, proclaim, require, requisition, set apart, solicit, summon |
| Antonyms: | stop |
| Main Entry: | consecrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hold in high religious regard |
| Synonyms: | anoint, beatify, bless, dedicate, devote, exalt, hallow, honor, ordain, sanctify, set apart, venerate |
| Antonyms: | deprecate |
| Main Entry: | dedicate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sanctify |
| Synonyms: | anoint, bless, consecrate, hallow, set apart |
| Antonyms: | alienate, desecrate, misuse |
| Main Entry: | designate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | specify as selection |
| Synonyms: | allocate, allot, appoint, apportion, appropriate, assign, authorize, button down, characterize, charge, choose, commission, connote, constitute, define, delegate, denote, depute, deputize, describe, dictate, earmark*, elect, evidence, favor, finger*, indicate, individualize, make, mark, mete, name, nominate, opt, peg, pick, pin down, pinpoint, prefer, put down for, reseve, set apart, set aside, show, single, slot, stipulate, tab, tag*, tap* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | devote |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | commit one's energies, thoughts |
| Synonyms: | allot, apply, apportion, appropriate, assign, bestow, bless, concern oneself, confide, consecrate, consign, dedicate, donate, enshrine, entrust, give, give away, hallow, hand out, occupy oneself, pledge, present, reserve, sanctify, set apart, vow |
| Antonyms: | misappropriate, misuse, waste |
| Main Entry: | differentiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a distinction |
| Synonyms: | antithesize, characterize, comprehend, contrast, demarcate, discern, discrepate, discriminate, extricate, individualize, individuate, know, know what's what, mark, mark off, redline, separate, set apart, set off, sever, severalize, split hairs, tell apart, understand |
| Antonyms: | associate, confuse, connect, group, link, mix up |
| Main Entry: | discriminate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | show prejudice |
| Synonyms: | be bigot, be partial, contradistinguish, disfavor, favor, hate, incline, judge, segregate, separate, set apart, show bias, single out, treat as inferior, treat differently, victimize |
| Main Entry: | dissociate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | part company with; separate |
| Synonyms: | abstract, alienate, break off, detach, disassociate, disband, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disperse, disrupt, distance, disunite, divide, divorce, estrange, isolate, quit, scatter, segregate, set apart, uncouple, unfix |
| Antonyms: | associate, attach, join |
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