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name meaning

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  • A name is a word or term used for identification.
  • Caution must be exercised when translating,
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  • NounPLnames
    1. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
      1. Reputation.
        1. An abusive or insulting epithet.
          1. Stop calling me names! ‎
        2. A person (or legal person).
          1. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
            1. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
              1. An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
              2. VerbSGnamesPRnamingPT, PPnamed
                1. VT To give a name to.
                  1. 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.
                2. VT To mention, specify.
                  1. He named his demands. ‎
                  2. You name it! ‎
                3. VT To identify as relevant or important.
                  1. naming the problem ‎
                4. VT To publicly implicate.
                  1. The painter was named as an accomplice. ‎
                5. VT To designate for a role.
                  1. My neighbor was named to the steering committee. ‎
              3. More Examples
                1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
                  • This café likes to Frenchify the names of its dishes to make them sound better than they actually are — they call their fish and chips "poisson-frites".
                  • Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn / It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore
                  • Isolates with indistinguishable profiles were attributed with a pulsotype named by a capital letter (A to H).
                2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
                  • Names of this sort, theophorous or basilophorous, were regularly given to foreigners residing in Egypt from the New Kingdom onwards, if not earlier; even Joseph was no exception.
                3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
                  • A person is born into their skin group and thus, in addition to a personal name, shares with other relatives who are similarly classified, a skin name.
                  • How much do you want to bet he pitches a tent when he finds out she knows his name?
                  • Soapberries are rich enough in saponin to be used as soap substitute, hence their name.

              Meaning of name for the defined word.

              Grammatically, this word "name" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.
              • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
                1. Nouns
                  • Countable nouns
                  • Verbs
                    • Transitive verbs
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