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(verb) mention and identify by name; "name your accomplices!" |
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Related Words: determine, fix, set, specify |
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(verb) give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property; "Many senators were named in connection with the scandal"; "The almanac identifies the auspicious months" |
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Synonyms: identify |
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Related Words: announce, denote, enumerate, itemize, list, number, refer |
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(verb) assign a specified name to; "They named their son David"; "The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader"; "Call me Boris" |
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Synonyms: call |
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Related Words: address, baptise, baptize, christen, dub, entitle, label, nickname, rename, style, tag, term, title |
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(noun) by the sanction or authority of; "halt in the name of the law" |
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Related Words: authority, sanction |
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(verb) give the names of; "Name the states west of the Mississippi!" |
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Synonyms: list |
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Related Words: give |
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(verb) charge with a function; charge to be; "She was named Head of the Committee"; "She was made president of the club" |
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Synonyms: make, nominate |
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Related Words: appoint, charge, rename |
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(noun) a language unit by which a person or thing is known; "his name really is George Washington"; "those are two names for the same thing" |
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Related Words: alias, anonym, appellation, appellative, assumed name, author's name, brand, cognomen, company name, denomination, designation, domain name, eponym, false name, family name, first name, forename, given name, label, language unit, last name, linguistic unit, marque, matronymic, metronymic, misnomer, nom de guerre, patronymic, place name, pseudonym, signature, surname, title, toponym, trade name, writer's name |
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(noun) a defamatory or abusive word or phrase; "sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me" |
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Synonyms: epithet |
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Related Words: calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, smear word, traducement |
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(noun) family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name" |
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Synonyms: gens |
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Related Words: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
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(noun) a well-known person; "they studied all the great names in the history of France" |
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Synonyms: figure |
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Related Words: important person, influential person, personage |
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(noun) a person's reputation; "he wanted to protect his good name" |
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Related Words: reputation, repute |
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(verb) determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis |
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Synonyms: diagnose |
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Related Words: analyse, analyze, examine, explore, study |
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(verb) as of a committee for a temporary task |
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Synonyms: appoint, constitute, nominate |
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Related Words: co-opt, constitute, establish, found, institute, pack, plant |
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(verb) make reference to: "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" |
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Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, mention, refer |
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Related Words: appeal, bring up, commend, cross-refer, drag up, dredge up, have in mind, invoke, mean, namedrop, raise, remember, think of, touch on |
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(verb) as in in botany or biology, for example |
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Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out |
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