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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



... hand was grasped and shaken cordially. Names were flung at him. Murchison, Davies, ...
— Daughters of Doom • Herbert B. Livingston

... doing after some considerable trouble, and they were the names of some of the shrewdest speculators in the City, none of them over-scrupulous, no doubt. To Rasputin I wired that I had the list, and asked for instructions, to which I received ...
— The Minister of Evil - The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia • William Le Queux

... said the kittens could stay in the nursery and belong to Marcella, so Marcella took them back to Fido's basket while she hunted names for them out ...
— Raggedy Ann Stories • Johnny Gruelle

... concurrence. I shall not acknowledge that the honorable member goes before me in regard for whatever of distinguished talent, or distinguished character, South Carolina has produced. I claim part of the honor, I partake in the pride, of her great names. I claim them for countrymen, one and all, the Laurenses, the Rutledges, the Pinckneys, the Sumpters, the Marions, Americans all, whose fame is no more to be hemmed in by State lines, than their talents and patriotism ...
— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster

... emphasis of that name, 'the living God,' tacitly contrasted with the dead idols of the enemies, and sealing the assurance of His swift and all-conquering might. Observe, too, the triumphant contempt in the enumeration of the many tribes of the foe with their barbarous names. Five of them had been enough, when named by the spies' trembling lips, to terrify the congregation, but here the list of the whole seven but strengthens confidence. Faith delights to look steadily at its ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren


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