name

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

names

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

name

past (v2)

named

past participle (v3)

named

present participle

naming

3rd person singular

names

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

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

   • So good a man as this must surely have a name.
   • I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.

2. 2.A reputation.

   • And David won a name for himself.
   • 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. 3.An abusive or insulting epithet.

   • He asked me what my name was.

4. 4.A person (or legal person).

   • They list with women each degenerate name.
   • International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and […] .
   • 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?

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To mention, specify.

   • You have to pot the ball in the pocket you've named.
   • The three countries were named in a new study from the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO.

2. 2.To identify as relevant or important

3. 3.To give a name to.

   • I will name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'
   • One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.
   • 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.

4. 4.To publicly implicate by name.

   • The painter was named as an accomplice.

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