- Named vs called - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Over on Stackoverflow, I keep seeing questions wherein posters say: *I have an item named SoAndSo (a table, a file, etc ) Shouldn't it be: *I have an item called SoAndSo Is "named" an accepta
- american english - Named for vs. named after - English Language . . .
Clearly "named after" means something along the lines of "These drawings are by Smith after those of Jones" where the "after" meaning "following as a consequence", so understood to mean "in honour of" The American "named for" is clearly in the sense that I do something "for" you, ie as a gift, so if I named something after someone, it would be as a gift "for" them, so it was named "for" them
- How should I use eponym, eponymous and namesake?
Correct examples: Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California that is the namesake of eighteenth-century bishop and philosopher George Berkeley Eighteenth-century bishop and philosopher George Berkeley is the eponym of the city of Berkeley, California They cannot be used interchangeably Namesake indicates a place, thing or person named
- What is the difference between named and termed?
However, termed is much more formal and is often used to describe very specific concepts in multiple different fields named, on the other hand, is a bit less formal and thus, much less restrictive than termed The general consensus seems to be: if you want to give a name to a very specific concept in a formal environment, pick termed
- A word for the person after whom someone or something is named
Places, roads, streets etc , get named after famous people, too Many inventions and discoveries have been named after people who invented or discovered them But I am not yet aware of a term that refers to the person whose name is given to people, places or objects this way Is there a suitable word to fill in the blank below?
- etymology - What is the story behind the word . . .
Sesquipedalian means having many syllables, and you'll probably know what phobia means Thus, "sesquipedaliophobia" is an irrational fear of words with many syllables The prefixes "hippopoto-" and "monstro-", as you might guess, are not there to add anything in terms of meaning, in fact they are rather nonsensical Their only purpose is to make the word longer, in a witty and cruel, sarcastic
- Comma before named? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
There should be a file, named something txt or There should be a file named something txt
- etymology - What reasoning is behind the names of the trigonometric . . .
The meanings of these words are very similar: the sine of an angle in a right triangle is the ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse; the secant is the ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent
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