- 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
- 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
- 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
- grammar - I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith - English . . .
Bert: I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith Uncle Albert: What's the name of his other leg? It is a joke that exploits a common ambiguity in English communication Obviously, naming a wooden leg is absurd, and so most listeners understand that the intention of Bert's reply, upon hearing it, is to explain that the name belongs to the man
- 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?
- direct objects - I have named him he who shall not be named? - English . . .
“I have named him whom shall not be named” is quite ungrammatical “I have named he who shall not be named” is acceptable to most, but would fail with prescriptionists
- 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
- Is there a word for someone with the same name?
The word namefellow or name-fellow, although rather obscure, does have exactly the meaning you're after, without the connotation of namesake that both people are named after the same person In Tristram of Lyonesse (1882) by the poet A C Swinburne, the protagonist travels to Brittany where he meets another knight named Tristram: But by the sea-banks where at morn their foes Might find them
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