• Name

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /neɪm/
    • Rhymes: -eɪm

    Origin

    From Middle English name, nome, from Old English nama, noma ("name; noun; the particular word used to denote any object of thought not considered in a purely individual character; title; reputation; the reputation of some character or attribute; the mere appellation in contrast or opposition to the actual person or thing"), from Proto-Germanic *namô ("name"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ ("name"). Cognate with Scots name, naim, nem ("name"), North Frisian Neem, Naam, nööm, noome ("name"), Saterland Frisian Noome ("name"), West Frisian namme ("name"), Dutch naam ("name"), Low German Name ("name"), German Name ("name"), Danish navn ("name"), Swedish namn ("name"), Icelandic nafn ("name"), Latin nōmen ("name"). See also neven.

    Noun

    name

    (plural names)
    1. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
      • Bible, Genesis ii. 19Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
      • ShakespeareThat which we call a rose
        By any other name would smell as sweet.
      • 1904, L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz:So good a man as this must surely have a name.
      • 2013, Lee S. Langston, The Adaptable Gas Turbine, 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.
    2. I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.
    3. Reputation.
    4. A person (or legal person).
      • DrydenThey list with women each degenerate name.
      • p. 2002 second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place, ISBN 1841692336, 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,....
      • 2008 edition of, 1998, S. B. Budhiraja and M. B. Athreya, Cases in Strategic Management, ISBN 0074620975 page 79 http://books.google.com/books?id=-IaKYHY0sogC&pg=PA79&dq=names: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?
      • 2009 third edition of, 1998, Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt, Tourism and Sustainability, ISBN 0203891058, page 29 http://books.google.com/books?id=bM6MPBIFwkQC&pg=PA29&dq=names:International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and....
    5. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
      • MacaulayThe ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities.
    6. (computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
    7. An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.

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    Verb

    1. (transitive) To give a name to.
      • 1904: L. Frank Baum, The Land of Oz — I will name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'
      • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 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. (transitive) To mention, specify.
      He named his demands.
      You name it!
    3. (transitive) To identify as relevant or important
      naming the problem
    4. (transitive) To publicly implicate.
      The painter was named as an accomplice.
    5. (transitive) To designate for a role.
      My neighbor was named to the steering committee.

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