name
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
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engineering
finance
government
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁nómn̥
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥
Proto-Germanic *namô
Proto-West Germanic *namō
Old English nama
Middle English name
English name
From Middle English name, nome, from Old English nama, noma, from Proto-West Germanic *namō, from Proto-Germanic *namô (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).
Cognates
Germanic Cognates: Yola naame, name, naume (“name”), North Frisian Naam, neem, noome, nööm (“name”), Saterland Frisian Nome, Noome (“name”), West Frisian namme (“name”), Alemannic German Naame, namä, noame, nomu, nàmund (“name”), Cimbrian naamo, name, nåm (“name”), Dutch naam, name (“name”), German Nahme, Name (“name”), German Low German Naam (“name”), Luxembourgish Numm (“name”), Mòcheno nu'm (“name”), Vilamovian noma (“name”), Yiddish נאָמען (nomen, “name”), Danish, Faroese and Norwegian Bokmål navn (“name”), Icelandic nafn (“name”), Norwegian Nynorsk nabn, namn (“name”), Swedish namn (“name”), Gothic 𐌽𐌰𐌼𐍉 (namō, “name”).
Indo-European Cognates: Latin nōmen (“name”) (whence Spanish nombre (“name”)), Russian имя (imja, “name”), Ashkun nām (“name”), Kamkata-viri nom, num (“name”), Prasuni nom, nëmë (“name”), Waigali nām (“name”), Sanskrit नामन् (nā́man, “name”). Possible cognates outside of Indo-European include Finnish nimi (“name”) and Hungarian név (“name”). Doublet of nomen and noun.
Inflected forms:
form: names
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nyem
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Geordie
form: names
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: naming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: named
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: named
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
pos: noun
examples: I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.
What's your name?
 Puddintane. Ask me again and I'll tell you the same.
That which we call a rose
 By any other name would smell as sweet.
[…] and whatsoeuer Adam called euery liuing creature, that was the name thereof.
So good a man as this must surely have a name.
Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
gloss: A reputation.
pos: noun
examples: Good name in man and woman, dear my lord
 Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
And David won a name for himself.
gloss: An abusive or insulting epithet.
pos: noun
examples: Stop calling me names!
gloss: A person (or legal person).
pos: noun
examples: They list with women each degenerate name.
p. 2002, second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place, →ISBN, page 287 http://books.google.com/books?id=7bxvJIs5_wsC&pg=PA287&dq=names
Later British psychologists interested in this topic include such major names as Cyril Burt, William McDougall, […] .
Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico?
International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and […] .
gloss: Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
pos: noun
examples: The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities.
gloss: An authority; a behalf.
pos: noun
examples: Halt in the name of the law!
We may be quite sure, therefore, that in some shape, if we, the people of England, tolerate the bloody and sanguinary crimes which are committed in our name, if they are so committed, and we do not remonstrate and condemn, we shall have no acquittal at that tribunal by which the actions, not of individuals only, but of nations and peoples, are finally judged.
gloss: An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.
pos: noun
gloss: An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: To give a name to.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.
I will name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'
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.
gloss: To mention, specify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He named his demands.
You name it!
You have to pot the ball in the pocket you've named.
The three countries were named in a new study from the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO.
gloss: To identify as relevant or important
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: naming the problem
gloss: To publicly implicate by name.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The painter was named as an accomplice.
gloss: To disclose the name of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Police are not naming the suspect as he is a minor.
gloss: To designate for a role.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My neighbor was named to the steering committee.
gloss: To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.
pos: verb
tags: Westminster-system
transitive
examples: 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.
Synonyms: name
nomenclature
proper name
designate
dub
Related words: alias
anonymous
appellation
cognomen
namely
nom de guerre
nom de plume
nominal
pseudonym
christen
epithet
moniker
sobriquet
Derived words: bename
codename
misname
my very easy method just speeds up naming planets
name after
name and shame
name names
outname
rename
to be named later
unname
you name it
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