different between appoint vs recommend
appoint
English
Etymology
From Middle English apointen, borrowed from Old French apointier (“to prepare, arrange, lean, place”) (French appointer (“to give a salary, refer a cause”)), from Late Latin appunctare (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”). See point.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??p??nt/
- Rhymes: -??nt
- Hyphenation: ap?point
Verb
appoint (third-person singular simple present appoints, present participle appointing, simple past and past participle appointed)
- (transitive) To set, fix or determine (a time or place for something such as a meeting, or the meeting itself) by authority or agreement.
- 1820, The Edinburgh Annual Register:
- His Royal Highness called to pay his respects to her Majesty; but, from the unexpected nature of his visit, her Majesty was not in a state then to receive him; but soon after sent a letter to Prince Leopold, to appoint one o'clock this day for an interview.
- 2014 November 8, Ivan Hewett, Art on demand makes emperors of us all, in The Telegraph:
- We have to wait until they're ready to receive us, and make sure we turn up at the appointed time.
- 1820, The Edinburgh Annual Register:
- (transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).
- Aaron and his shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service.
- 2014 November 3, Fredric U. Dicker, Cuomo appointed 'vote or else' strategist, in the New York Post:
- Neal Kwatra, appointed by Cuomo to be the state Democratic Party's chief campaign strategist, was identified by two key Democratic insiders[...]
- (transitive) To furnish or equip (a place) completely; to provide with all the equipment or furnishings necessary; to fit out.
- 2009, Donald Olson, Germany for Dummies:
- The hotel is beautifully designed and beautifully appointed in a classic, modern style that manages to be both serene and luxurious at the same time.
- 2009, Donald Olson, Germany for Dummies:
- (transitive) To equip (someone) with (something); to assign (someone) authoritatively (some equipment).
- (transitive, law) To fix the disposition of (property) by designating someone to take use of (it).
- 1828–29 (case decided), published in 1843, in the Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery:
- If the donee of a power appoint the fund to one of the objects of the power, under an understanding that the latter is to lend the fund to tho former, although on good security, the appointment is bad.
- 1828–29 (case decided), published in 1843, in the Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery:
- (obsolete, transitive) To fix with power or firmness by decree or command; to ordain or establish.
- When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
- Thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To resolve; to determine; to ordain.
- For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel.
- 1823 December 13, a record quoted in The Christian Library: A Reprint of Popular Religious Works (Richard Watson, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Raffles, etc; 1836):
- The day being very stormy, we were obliged to keep at home; which I much regretted, as it abridged my opportunity of seeing the Jewish synagogues, as we had appointed to do to-day.
- 1833, The Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Matthew Henry:
- He had preached twice on the Lord's day, he preached also on Monday, and had appointed to do the same on Tuesday, but died that morning.
- 1848, Anthony Trollope, The Kellys and the O'Kellys ?ISBN, page 251:
- On the following morning Lord Ballindine[,] as he had appointed to do, drove over to Dunmore, to settle with Martin about the money, and, if necessary, to go with him to the attorney's office in Tuam.
Derived terms
Related terms
- point
Translations
Further reading
- appoint at OneLook Dictionary Search
- appoint in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- antipop, apoptin
French
Etymology
Deverbal of appointer. from Old French apoint (“favorable occasion; resolution, agreement”), from Old French apointier (“to work out, solve”), from Late Latin appunctare (“to bring back to the point, restore, to fix the point in a controversy, or the points in an agreement”); Latin ad + punctum (“a point”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.pw??/
Noun
appoint m (plural appoints)
- an amount of small change
- money which completes a payment, balances an account
- (figuratively) complementary support
Derived terms
- faire l'appoint
- câbles d’appoint
- carburant d'appoint
- lit d'appoint
- propulseur d'appoint
- pièce d’appoint
Further reading
- “appoint” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
appoint From the web:
- what appoints supreme court justices
- what appointments can the president make
- what appointments do i have today
- what appoints federal judges
- what appointments do babies get shots
- what appointments does the senate approve
- what appointment was she awarded in 1981
- what appointed means
recommend
English
Etymology
From Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender (compare French recommander), from Latin re- + commend?re.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /??k??m?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
- Hyphenation: rec?om?mend
Verb
recommend (third-person singular simple present recommends, present participle recommending, simple past and past participle recommended)
- (transitive) To bestow commendation on; to represent favourably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
- The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.
- (transitive) To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
- A city that has much to recommend it.
- (transitive) To advise, propose, counsel favorably
- The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
- (transitive, archaic) To commit, confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations
- A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:advise
Antonyms
- deprecate
- disrecommend
- discourage
- disapprove
- oppose
Derived terms
Related terms
- recommendation
Translations
Anagrams
- commender
Middle English
Verb
recommend
- Alternative form of recommenden
recommend From the web:
- what recommendations are made to motivate achievement
- what recommend mean
- what recommended tire pressure
- how to improve achievement motivation
- how to increase achievement motivation
- what is motivation achievement
- how to develop achievement motivation
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