name
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nām
ipa: /neɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
Forms: form: names
form: naming
form: named
form: named
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”). Cognate with West Frisian neame (“to name; to mention”). Compare also Old English nemnan, nemnian (“to name, give a name to a person or thing”).
Senses: examples: text: One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.
text: I will name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'
ref: 1904, L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz:
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:
glosses: To give a name to.
examples: text: He named his demands.
text: You name it!
text: You have to pot the ball in the pocket you've named.
text: The three countries were named in a new study from the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO.
ref: 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2019:
glosses: To mention, specify.
examples: text: naming the problem
glosses: To identify as relevant or important
examples: text: The painter was named as an accomplice.
glosses: To publicly implicate by name.
examples: text: Police are not naming the suspect as he is a minor.
glosses: To disclose the name of.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: My neighbor was named to the steering committee.
synonyms: nominate
glosses: To designate for a role.
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:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
Synonyms: sense: give a name to
word: bename
word: designate
word: dub
word: denominate
sense: specify
word: nominate
word: specify
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from name (verb)
word: bename
sense: Terms derived from name (verb)
word: codename
sense: Terms derived from name (verb)
word: misname
sense: Terms derived from name (verb)
word: my very easy method just speeds up naming planets
sense: Terms derived from name (verb)
word: name after
sense: Terms derived from name (verb)
word: name and shame
sense: Terms derived from name (verb)
word: name names
sense: Terms derived from name (verb)
word: outname
sense: Terms derived from name (verb)
word: rename
sense: Terms derived from name (verb)
word: to be named later
sense: Terms derived from name (verb)
word: unname
sense: Terms derived from name (verb)
word: you name it
Related terms: christen
epithet
moniker
sobriquet