with obj.
1
- propose or formally enter as a candidate for election or for an honour or award提名：
the film was nominated for several Oscars.
那部影片获好几项奥斯卡奖提名。
1.1
- appoint to a job or position任命：
the company nominated her as a delegate to the convention.
公司任命她为出席那次大会的代表。
2
- specify (something) formally, typically the date or place for an event确定, 指定（事件的日期或地点）：
a day was nominated for the exchange of contracts.
确定了交换合同的日子。
- Zoology & Botany denoting a race or subspecies which is given the same epithet as the species to which it belongs, e.g. Homo sapiens sapiens【动, 植】以种名命名的。
派生词
nominator
noun词源
late Middle English （as an adjective in the sense 'named'）： from Latin nominat- 'named', from the verb nominare, from nomen, nomin- 'a name'. The verb senses are first found in English in the 16th cent.