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to-name

/too-neym/US // ˈtuˌneɪm //

命名,拟名

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chiefly Scot.

    • : a nickname, especially one to distinguish a person from others of the same name.
    • : a surname.

Examples

  • The CDA was passed not in the name of censorship but in the name of protecting children from stumbling across sexual material.

  • “Gronkowski” itself never manages to sound more erotic than the name of a hearty Polish stew or a D-list WWE performer.

  • Yet, for god knows what reason, his name is never brought up in the “Great American Filmmaker” conversation.

  • What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.

  • A sad-faced orange Star of David flashed across the iPhone screen as we swiped left on “James” (not his real name).

  • Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

  • In pursuing his alchemical researches, he discovered Prussian blue, and the animal oil which bears his name.

  • All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.

  • Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.

  • "It is ill-fated;" and Alessandro blamed himself for having forgotten her only association with the name.