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verb

Name v. t. (past & past part. named; pres. part. naming)

To give a distinctive name or appellation to; to entitle; to denominate; to style; to call. "She named the child Ichabod." "Thus was the building left Ridiculous, and the work Confusion named."

To mention by name; to utter or publish the name of; to refer to by distinctive title; to mention. "None named thee but to praise." "Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the underlying dead."

To designate by name or specifically for any purpose; to nominate; to specify; to appoint; as, to name a day for the wedding; to name someone as ambassador. "Whom late you have named for consul."

(House of Commons) To designate (a member) by name, as the Speaker does by way of reprimand.

Synonyms: To denominate; style; term; call; mention; specify; designate; nominate.

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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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