name

noun

1. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

   “I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty.”

   “What's your name? Puddintane. Ask me again and I'll tell you the same.”

   “That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”

   “[…] and whatsoeuer Adam called euery liuing creature, that was the name thereof.”

   “So good a man as this must surely have a name.”

2. A reputation.

   “Good name in man and woman, dear my lord Is the immediate jewel of their souls.”

   “The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.”

   “And David won a name for himself.”

3. An abusive or insulting epithet.

   “Stop calling me names!”

4. A person (or legal person).

   “They list with women each degenerate name.”

   “p. 2002, second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place, →ISBN, page 287 http://books.google.com/books?id=7bxvJIs5_wsC&pg=PA287&dq=names Later British psychologists interested in this topic include such major names as Cyril Burt, William McDougall, […] .”

   “Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico?”

   “International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and […] .”

5. Those of a certain name; a race; a family.

   “The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name, came every day to pay their feigned civilities.”

6. An authority; a behalf.

   “Halt in the name of the law!”

   “We may be quite sure, therefore, that in some shape, if we, the people of England, tolerate the bloody and sanguinary crimes which are committed in our name, if they are so committed, and we do not remonstrate and condemn, we shall have no acquittal at that tribunal by which the actions, not of individuals only, but of nations and peoples, are finally judged.”

7. An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.
8. (UK)An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.
9. Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.

verb

1. (ditransitive)To give a name to.

   “One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.”

   “I will name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'”

   “A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.”

2. (transitive)To mention, specify.

   “He named his demands.”

   “You name it!”

   “You have to pot the ball in the pocket you've named.”

   “The three countries were named in a new study from the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO.”

3. (transitive)To identify as relevant or important

   “naming the problem”

4. (transitive)To publicly implicate by name.

   “The painter was named as an accomplice.”

5. (transitive)To disclose the name of.

   “Police are not naming the suspect as he is a minor.”

6. (transitive)To designate for a role.

   “My neighbor was named to the steering committee.”

7. (Westminster-system, transitive)To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.

   “I must warn the Right Honourable gentleman, that if he persists in his refusal to comply with my order to withdraw [the words "deliberately deceptive"], I shall be compelled to name him.”

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of North American English.