Word Finder - names

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Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

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I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.

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• proper name

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Reputation.

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An abusive or insulting epithet.

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Stop calling me names!

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A person (or legal person).

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Those of a certain name; a race; a family.

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A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.

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An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.

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Authority.

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Halt in the name of the law!

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(ditransitive) To give a name to.

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One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.

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To mention, specify.

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He named his demands.

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To identify as relevant or important

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naming the problem

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To publicly implicate.

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The painter was named as an accomplice.

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To designate for a role.

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My neighbor was named to the steering committee.

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(Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.

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Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

Codes mingled with names and addresses in a request for medical assistance.

Do you need the names of the others?

They'll use those names we were all given.

Too bad you couldn't have your FBI pal Winston check out a few more names for us.

He didn't have the foggiest idea anyone was looking until after he spoke with Mrs. Glass—around Rollins, Kansas, and yet he keeps changing names, not leaving his signature and not even being seen unless he can't help it.

Darian stared at the names.

The names of leading legislators, which we so often find recorded in the history of primitive peoples, are symbols and myths, merely serving to mark an historic period or epoch by some definite and personal denomination.

I didn't know the names of anyone at organization so I asked for the person in charge of investigations.

He'd helped build the bridge between the two who were sworn together as mates after they barely learned each other's' names.

Katie moved quickly in the direction she indicated and found a line in front of the guestbook as Immortals wrote their names.

When she reached it, she scanned all the names on each page, disappointed at not finding his anywhere.

Clusters of sixties and seventies-style subdivisions had blossomed during the post-war era of rush to the 'burbs. These look-alikes that originally carried names like Camelot or South Pacific were at first scorned by Parkside's gentry but had slowly gained a level of respectability.

Dean meticu­lously copied the names and addresses in a notebook.

Dean started to copy the names but Monica stopped him.

She took a plain sheet of white paper from her desk and proceeded with flying fingers to type the 14 names and addresses using an old manual typewriter.

Dean gave Winston the information, including both names, Cleary and Corbin.

He took a few moments to sign the guest book but didn't bother looking at the names before his.

Yet try as he may, he didn't know the names of the three little kids next door, who'd come trick-or-treating for a half dozen years, sold Girl Scout cookies and always smiled—and they knew his name.

Their names were Natalie and Matthew, which didn't sound much alike.

She read the names of everything, until she found the eggs.

But it is not so now; the names in ordinary use being King-cheng or King-tu, both signifying "capital."

These two conditions are generally described under the names of hyponasty and epiizasty respectively.

This was a result of the belief, that whoever knew the names of these rulers would after death pass through all the heavens to the supreme God.

It is impossible to enumerate or to give due consideration to all the names in the army of anatomical and embryological students of the middle third of the 19th century whose labours bore fruit in the modification of zoological theories and in the building up of a true classification of animals.

Once Jim extends the invitation, he memorizes all the individuals' names, where they are from, what they do for a living, information about their families, and so forth.

I did nothing but explore with my hands and learn the name of every object that I touched; and the more I handled things and learned their names and uses, the more joyous and confident grew my sense of kinship with the rest of the world.

I never knew even the names of the members of the "court" who did not speak to me.

She wrote on the blackboard the names of all the gentlemen present.

One of the girls taught her to dance the polka, and a little boy showed her his rabbits and spelled their names for her.

God, I thought I was so damn smart, changing names, changing vehicles and some old guy and a small town detective find me like I've got a sign around my neck.

I had to set up some names and stuff—bank accounts too.

At that point he intended to put it in both their names.

When she broached the subject of putting it in both their names, he had resisted, insisting that it remain in her name only.

She trotted through the square until she found it and crouched beside it to see names at the very bottom, the names of the nobles' servants.

The names of her mate and her daughter were written beside hers.

She touched the two names beside hers.

She released a deep sigh, finger lingering on the names from her past.

He knelt and then hunched to see the names at the very bottom of the small obelisk.

Her hands grew clammy as she circled the wide base of the obelisk to see the names on the other side.

She forced herself to recall each of their faces, each of their names, each of their stricken families.

Carmen scribbled the names on a piece of paper.

She wouldn't have named them sound-alike names and she didn't dress them alike.

A list of names appeared.

Gerry tapped the table for a moment then began sorting the names.

For nations, or rather tribes, were then distinguished by personal names only.

Though votes were often cast for ten names, there were but two real candidates before the convention, Grant and Blaine.

El-`Azariyeh is a poor village of about thirty families, with few marks of antiquity; there is no reason to believe that the houses of Mary and Martha and of Simon the Leper, or the sepulchre of Lazarus, still shown by the monks, have any claim to the names they bear.

On the 3rd of July 1517 he published the names of thirty-one new cardinals, a number almost unprecedented in the history of the papacy.

An official blanket ballot containing the names of the candidates.

A Cnossian didrachm exhibits on one side the labyrinth, on the other the Minotaur surrounded by a semicircle of small balls, probably intended for stars; it is to be noted that one of the monster' s names was Asterius.