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NAMING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of putting a person into a non-elective position
Example:
the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee
Synonyms:
appointment; assignment; designation; naming
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("naming" is a kind of...):
conclusion; decision; determination (the act of making up your mind about something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "naming"):
nomination (the act of officially naming a candidate)
co-optation; co-option (the act of appointing summarily (with or without the appointee's consent))
delegacy (the appointment of a delegate)
ordinance; ordination (the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders)
recognition (designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body)
Derivation:
name (create and charge with a task or function)
name (charge with a function; charge to be)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The verbal act of naming
Example:
the part he failed was the naming of state capitals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("naming" is a kind of...):
speech act (the use of language to perform some act)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "naming"):
acrophony (naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter)
numeration (naming numbers)
denotation; indication (the act of indicating or pointing out by name)
specification (naming explicitly)
Derivation:
name (identify as in botany or biology, for example)
name (mention and identify by name)
name (make reference to)
name (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property)
name (assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inclined to or serving for the giving of names
Example:
the appellative function of some primitive rites
Synonyms:
appellative; naming
Classified under:
Similar:
denotative; denotive (having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb name
Context examples:
While not naming any other bidders, Maróth said the Hungarian bid won after lengthy negotiations, out of mulitple competing offers.
(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)
It consists of sets of terms naming descriptors in a hierarchical structure that permits searching at various levels of specificity.
(Medical Subject Headings, NCI Thesaurus)
A word was put in for a second young Cox; and at last, Mr. Weston naming one family of cousins who must be included, and another of very old acquaintance who could not be left out, it became a certainty that the five couple would be at least ten, and a very interesting speculation in what possible manner they could be disposed of.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
In confirmation of this, she related the particulars of all the pecuniary transactions in which they had been connected, without actually naming her authority, but stating it to be such as might be relied on.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
As they were surveying the last, the general, after slightly naming a few of the distinguished characters by whom they had at times been honoured, turned with a smiling countenance to Catherine, and ventured to hope that henceforward some of their earliest tenants might be our friends from Fullerton.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Services that are needed to maintain the running of a grid, including monitoring and discovery service, security management service (authentication and authorization), identifier naming and resolution service, query and federated query service, and workflow management service.
(Core Grid Service, NCI Thesaurus)
Try, pray do, to relent towards a miserable girl, and write down on a bit of paper whether he is well, and what he said about me before you left off ever naming me among yourselves—and whether, of a night, when it is my old time of coming home, you ever see him look as if he thought of one he used to love so dear.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Soon afterwards Mr. Elton quitted them, and she could not but do him the justice of feeling that there was a great deal of sentiment in his manner of naming Harriet at parting; in the tone of his voice while assuring her that he should call at Mrs. Goddard's for news of her fair friend, the last thing before he prepared for the happiness of meeting her again, when he hoped to be able to give a better report; and he sighed and smiled himself off in a way that left the balance of approbation much in his favour.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The party was rather large, as it included one other family, a proper unobjectionable country family, whom the Coles had the advantage of naming among their acquaintance, and the male part of Mr. Cox's family, the lawyer of Highbury.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
