nominate

proposer, désigner

Proposer officiellement une personne pour un emploi, un poste ou une responsabilité.

En anglais simple : To formally suggest someone for a job, position, or responsibility.

• We nominated Anna as chair.
• Who will you nominate for president?
• The committee has nominated two candidates.

Comment l'utiliser : nominate someone for something (The party nominated her for president.); nominate someone as something (We nominated Ravi as team leader.); nominate someone to do something (They nominated me to represent the class.)

Synonymes : propose, put forward

Expressions courantes : nominate someone, nominate a candidate, nominate someone as chair

nommer, proposer

Proposer officiellement un film, un livre ou une autre œuvre pour un prix.

En anglais simple : To formally suggest a film, book, or other work as a possible winner of a prize.

• They nominated the film for an award.
• Three albums were nominated for the prize.
• Which book would you nominate?

Comment l'utiliser : nominate something for an award (The judges nominated her novel for an award.)

Synonymes : put forward, propose

Expressions courantes : nominate a film, nominate something for something

nominotypique

Se dit du sous-groupe biologique contenant le spécimen d’origine qui a servi à nommer le groupe supérieur.

En anglais simple : Describing the smaller biological group containing the original specimen used to name the larger group.

• This bird belongs to the nominate subspecies.
• The nominate form occurs on the mainland.
• Researchers compared the island population with the nominate race.

Synonymes : nominotypical

Expressions courantes : nominate subspecies, nominate form, nominate race