This term designated a professional fighting man in the emerging feudal system.

The term designates a number of different critical practices.

In the early 21st century, the term has been used more rarely, but still designates the destructive side of psychic energy.

The term white designates west, thus the name of the state means Western Croatia.

In these early usages, the term designated a merely geographic concept.

The term anthropogenic designates an effect or object resulting from human activity.

The term "wusheng," for example, designates all the male military roles.

Strauss used these terms to designate the two poles of Western culture, roughly corresponding to revelation and reason.

"Being within the strictly limited sense, as of a term designating something: the town proper, excluding the suburbs".

By the 18th century, the term "statistics" designated the systematic collection of demographic and economic data by states.