name (English, verb)
Etymology: From Middle English namen, from Old English namian (“to name, mention”) and ġenamian (“to name, call, appoint”), from Proto-West Germanic *namōn (“to name”). Compare also Old English nemnan, nemnian (“to name, give a name to a person or thing”).
Definitions: examples: text: One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.
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text: I will name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'
ref: 1904, L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz:
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text: A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
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glosses: To give a name to.
tags: ditransitive
examples: text: He named his demands.
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text: You name it!
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text: You have to pot the ball in the pocket you've named.
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text: The three countries were named in a new study from the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO.
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ref: 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 2019-02-07
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glosses: To mention, specify.
tags: transitive
examples: text: naming the problem
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glosses: To identify as relevant or important
tags: transitive
examples: text: The painter was named as an accomplice.
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glosses: To publicly implicate by name.
tags: transitive
examples: text: Police are not naming the suspect as he is a minor.
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glosses: To disclose the name of.
tags: transitive
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: My neighbor was named to the steering committee.
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synonyms: nominate
glosses: To designate for a role.
tags: transitive
examples: text: I must warn the Right Honourable gentleman, that if he persists in his refusal to comply with my order to withdraw [the words "deliberately deceptive"], I shall be compelled to name him.
ref: 2013 July 10, John (Speaker of the House of Commons) Bercow, (Please provide the book title or journal name), to MP Nigel Dodds:
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topics: government
politics
glosses: To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
tags: Westminster-system
transitive
Forms: form: names
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: naming
tags: participle
present
form: named
tags: participle
past
form: named
tags: past
Synonyms: sense: give a name to
word: bename
word: designate
word: dub
word: denominate
sense: specify
word: nominate
word: specify
Derived terms: bename
codename
misname
my very easy method just speeds up naming planets
name after
name and shame
name names
rename
to be named later
unname
you name it
Related terms: christen
epithet
moniker
sobriquet