Para - A greek prefix which came to designate objects or activities auxiliary to or derivative of that denoted by the base word ( parody; paronomasia, paranoia) and hence abnormal or defective.

"The proper names, in any language, must designate objects meeting a condition of spatiotemporal contiguity, and that the same is true of other terms designating objects."

It is important to note that there are also invalid ways to designate objects, which will be talked about in the next section.

Astronomers designate objects moving earthward as "meteoroids."

Nominal data directly designates persons or objects (recidivists, intelligence files and suspect files, stolen vehicles or objects, etc.) and their relations.

That is, a proper name refers to the named object in every possible world in which the object exists, while most descriptions designate different objects in different possible worlds.

He appreciated both Zen philosophy and Marcel Duchamp's penchant for designating common objects as works of art; taking a similar tack with sound, he claimed silence, traffic noise, anything on the radio and much else as music.

We have the ability to name things and designate objects or actions to a certain idea or phenomenon.

Well in a best case scenario (from my perspective) it will no longer be possible to designate odeous objects - pitiful 'slaves' to some invented 'other world' - as art.

According to Blust (2001, 2009), the fossilized morpheme is used in various Austronesian languages to designate objects having a "sensitive connection with the spirit world."