What's the difference between appoint and specify?

Appoint


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
  • (v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
  • (v. t.) To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
  • (v. t.) To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
  • (v. t.) To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.
  • (v. t.) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.
  • (v. i.) To ordain; to determine; to arrange.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Peter retired in 1998, when he was appointed CBE for his services to drama.
  • (2) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
  • (3) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
  • (4) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
  • (5) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
  • (6) At the moment the MPA makes the appointments in consultation with the Met commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson.
  • (7) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
  • (8) The data document the compliance of adolescent girls with telephone appointments and suggest that this technique may be a useful adjunct for monitoring patients requiring close medical follow-up.
  • (9) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
  • (10) She said she has turned to hairdressing to pay the bills, with “appointments for braids and weaves about three times a week”.
  • (11) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
  • (12) A teaching union has questioned appointment of a trustee of Britain's largest academy chain group as chairman of the schools regulator Ofsted , in what was a surprise announcement meant to calm some of the internal conflicts within the coalition.
  • (13) "I think there is an absolutely determined effort from No 10 that Conservative supporters will be appointed to public bodies.
  • (14) With Everton heading for a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League, the additional television revenue and prospect of further funds from Fellaini, the club are confident of appointing an "equally significant" successor to Moyes, according to the chairman, Bill Kenwright.
  • (15) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
  • (16) The Rhode Island Democrat got his start in national politics in 1999 when he was appointed to the Senate as a Republican after his father’s death.
  • (17) Elvira Nabiullina took office in June of this year after her appointment by President Putin – not a man known for his feminist views.
  • (18) This is no doubt a captain’s pick by Malcolm Turnbull and we hope for the sake of the relationship that it has been a good pick.” The planned appointment of Hockey to the Washington role has been one of the worst-kept secrets in Australian politics .
  • (19) Michael Garcia, the former New York district attorney appointed to investigate the 2018 and 2022 votes, will deliver his report in seven weeks.
  • (20) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.

Specify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The present study was therefore carried out to specify further which type of adrenoceptor is involved in lithium-induced hyperglycaemia and inhibition of insulin secretion.
  • (2) The mboIIR gene specifies a protein of 416 amino acids (MW: 48,617) while the mboIIM gene codes for a putative 260-residue polypeptide (MW: 30,077).
  • (3) The specified region of the inner E2 core domain was highly homologous to the region of the E2 subunit of pyruvate dehydrogenase and alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase.
  • (4) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
  • (5) The gacA gene specifies a trans-active 24-kDa protein.
  • (6) The flow of a specified concentration of test gas exits from the mixing board, enters a distributing tube, and is then distributed equally to 12 chamber tubes housing one mouse each.
  • (7) FBI assistant director David Bowdich said that Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were radicalized long before they went on a rampage at a community center in southern California last Wednesday, but would not specify whether he meant months or years.
  • (8) One abutment was used to evaluate each of nine oral hygiene instrumentation methods used for specified lengths of time or instrument strokes.
  • (9) The ordering may also serve as a simple format for specifying corticostriatal connections in development.
  • (10) Cessation of coital activity was associated with specified types of stress between 65 and 70 years of age in the subgroup of men who had stopped due to inability; six out of eight reported stress against five out of 20 in the C group, P less than 0.05.
  • (11) Eight bibliographic control elements are defined, and the criteria for evaluating the occurrence of these elements in sixty-four sample catalogs are specified.
  • (12) A total of 5319 cases of primary cancer in childhood were followed until patient death or the end of 1980, and the number of secondary tumors were observed, specifying on diagnosis, age, sex, and time since first tumor diagnosis.
  • (13) These design methods are suited for constructing the most efficient gradient coil that meets a specified homogeneity requirement.
  • (14) We found a 258-nucleotide 5' leader sequence containing three short open reading frames followed by a sequence specifying a protein of 437 amino acids.
  • (15) Responses in the presence of each terminal-link stimulus produced equal frequencies of food reinforcement, but in the presence of one of the stimuli, food depended upon the emission of a response rate either higher or lower than a specified value (differential reinforcement of rates).
  • (16) A formal notion of relatability is defined, specifying which physically given edges leading into discontinuities can be connected to others by interpolated edges.
  • (17) These bounds require an investigator to specify a range of possible concordances for the times to occurrences of the competing risks.
  • (18) Consistent with the convergence hypothesis, only those sites that specify amino acids in the mature lysozyme are shared uniquely with ruminant lysozyme genes.
  • (19) The level of competency in the diagnosis and treatment of common and emergency disorders needed by nonophthalmologists is assessed and then translated into explicit objectives that specify the levels of mastery to be learned.
  • (20) Specified cytotoxicity and mutagenicity of coal dust extract (mixture of solvent extractions of bituminous coal nitrosated by NaNO2) were investigated because of the association of an excess risk of gastric cancer in coal miners.