namenoun詞源 1/neɪm/

• 1

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

  • 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.
• 2

  A reputation.

  • 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.
• 3

  An abusive or insulting epithet.

  • Stop calling me names!
• 4

  A person (or legal person).

  • 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, […] .
• 5

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

  • The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities.
• 6

  An authority; a behalf.

  • 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.
• 7

  computingengineeringmathematicsAn identifier, generally a unique string of characters.

• 8

  businessfinanceAn investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.

nameverb詞源 2/neɪm/

• 1

  To give a name to.

  • 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!'
• 2

  To mention, specify.

  • He named his demands.
  • You name it!
• 3

  To identify as relevant or important

  • naming the problem
• 4

  To publicly implicate by name.

  • The painter was named as an accomplice.
• 5

  To disclose the name of.

  • Police are not naming the suspect as he is a minor.
• 6

  To designate for a role.

  • My neighbor was named to the steering committee.
• 7

  governmentpoliticsTo initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.

  • 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.

namenoun詞源 3/n(j)ɑmeɪ/

• 1

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

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