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Naming   /nˈeɪmɪŋ/   Listen
Naming

noun
1.
The verbal act of naming.
2.
The act of putting a person into a non-elective position.  Synonyms: appointment, assignment, designation.
adjective
1.
Inclined to or serving for the giving of names.  Synonym: appellative.  "The appellative function of some primitive rites"


Name

verb
(past & past part. named; pres. part. naming)
1.
Assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to.  Synonym: call.  "The new school was named after the famous Civil Rights leader"
2.
Give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property.  Synonym: identify.  "The almanac identifies the auspicious months"
3.
Charge with a function; charge to be.  Synonyms: make, nominate.  "She was made president of the club"
4.
Create and charge with a task or function.  Synonyms: appoint, constitute, nominate.
5.
Mention and identify by name.
6.
Make reference to.  Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, mention, refer.
7.
Identify as in botany or biology, for example.  Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out.
8.
Give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of.  Synonym: list.
9.
Determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis.  Synonym: diagnose.



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"Naming" Quotes from Famous Books



... I was sent on; since it forced me to be civil to this spoiled creature, instead of, as I should have wished, naming her for what she was, to her face. However, that had been done pretty often by the mob; so I doubt if I could have told her anything she did not know already. Her voice was set very low and was a little rough; yet it was not ugly at all. She ...
— Oddsfish! • Robert Hugh Benson
... Cowperwood almost testily. "I know whether I'm satisfied or not, and I'd soon tell you if I wasn't. I think you might as well go on and see if you can find some definite grounds for carrying it to the Supreme Court, but meanwhile I'll begin my sentence. I suppose Payderson will be naming a day to have me brought before him ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser
... so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition, she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested. This broken joint between you and her husband, entreat her to splinter; and, my fortunes against any lay worth naming, this crack of your love shall grow stronger than ...
— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... down a peg or two by referring to St. Petersburg (a city which Petrushka had never visited), and Petrushka seeking to recover lost ground by dilating on towns which he HAD visited, and Grigory capping this by naming some town which is not to be found on any map in existence, and then estimating the journey thither as at least thirty thousand versts—a statement which would so completely flabbergast the henchman of Chichikov's suite that he ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... people, from the Far Stars," Vahr informed him, naming their names. Long names, which meant nothing; certainly they were not names the Southrons from the Warm Seas bore. "And this is Raud the Keeper, with whom your honors ...
— The Keeper • Henry Beam Piper


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