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Names   /neɪmz/   Listen
Names

noun
1.
Verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument.  Synonym: name calling.


Name

noun
1.
A language unit by which a person or thing is known.  "Those are two names for the same thing"
2.
A person's reputation.
3.
Family based on male descent.  Synonym: gens.
4.
A well-known or notable person.  Synonyms: figure, public figure.  "She is an important figure in modern music"
5.
By the sanction or authority of.
6.
A defamatory or abusive word or phrase.  Synonym: epithet.
verb
(past & past part. named; pres. part. naming)
1.
Assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to.  Synonym: call.  "The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader"
2.
Give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property.  Synonym: identify.  "The almanac identifies the auspicious months"
3.
Charge with a function; charge to be.  Synonyms: make, nominate.  "She was made president of the club"
4.
Create and charge with a task or function.  Synonyms: appoint, constitute, nominate.
5.
Mention and identify by name.
6.
Make reference to.  Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, mention, refer.
7.
Identify as in botany or biology, for example.  Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out.
8.
Give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of.  Synonym: list.
9.
Determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis.  Synonym: diagnose.



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"Names" Quotes from Famous Books



... Asher Aydelot's room. And with a woman's loving sentiment, neither Asher's mother nor the present owner had changed it at all. The petals of a pink rose of the wallpaper by the old-styled dresser were written over in a boyish hand and the doctor read the names of "Jim and Alice," and ...
— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter
... ma'am. But names are risky pilots, ain't they? I've run against a consider'ble number of Solomons, but there wa'n't one of 'em that carried more'n a deckload of wisdom. They christened me Elisha, but I can't even prophesy the weather with sartinty ...
— Cap'n Warren's Wards • Joseph C. Lincoln
... of persons who were killed in the course of the burning and the shootings has been drawn up by M. Bievelot, Conseiller d'Arrondissement. The list includes no less than 50 names. We have not quoted all of them. For one thing, among the people whose death has been proved, some died under conditions which are not stated with sufficient precision; on the other hand, the dispersal of the inhabitants of the town which has ...
— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times
... 'em all, but I didn't catch their names. I 'made' one before I'd gone a mile—tall, slim party, with ...
— The Silver Horde • Rex Beach
... Hibbert, Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board, to the Under-Secretaryship of the Home Office; [Footnote: Mr. J. Tomlinson Hibbert, afterwards for many years Chairman of the Lancashire County Council and of the County Councils Association.] and out of several names submitted to him by Mr. Gladstone for Mr. Hibbert's place he selected that of Mr. G. W. E. Russell, who, a short time before this, had published in one of the reviews an article vehemently attacking the Whig ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn


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