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naming
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun naming has 2 senses
- naming(n = noun.communication) Array - the verbal act of naming; "the part he failed was the naming of state capitals" is a kind of speech act
- naming(n = noun.act) appointment, assignment, designation - the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee" is a kind of conclusion, decision, determination
has particulars: acrophony, numeration, denotation, indication, specification
Derived forms verb name7, verb name5, verb name6, verb name2, verb name1
has particulars: nomination, co-optation, co-option, delegacy, ordinance, ordination, recognition
Derived forms verb name4, verb name3
Adjective naming has 1 sense
- naming(s = adj.all) appellative - inclined to or serving for the giving of names; "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites"
THESAURUS
naming
appellation, appointment, assignment, baptism, calling, characterization, christening, connotative, definition, demonstrative, denomination, denominative, denotation, denotative, designation, designative, diagnostic, differentiation, disclosure, emblematic, evidential, exhibitive, expression, expressive, figural, figurative, fingering, hint, identification, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, indicating, indication, indicative, indicativeness, indicatory, individual, manifestation, meaning, meaningful, metaphorical, nicknaming, nomination, ordainment, ordination, pathognomonic, peculiar, picking out, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, posting, proposal, representative, selection, semantic, semiotic, show, showing, signalizing, significant, signification, significative, signifying, specification, styling, suggestion, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomaticness, symptomatologic, tabbing, terming, transferral, typicalROGET THESAURUS
naming
Nomenclature
N nomenclature, naming, nuncupation, nomination, baptism, orismology, onomatopoeia, antonomasia, name, appelation, appelative, designation, title, heading, rubric, caption, denomination, by-name, epithet, style, proper name, praenomen, agnomen, cognomen, patronymic, surname, cognomination, eponym, compellation, description, antonym, empty title, empty name, handle to one's name, namesake, term, expression, noun, byword, convertible terms, technical term, cant, named, hight, ycleped, known as, what one may well, call fairly, call properly, call fitly, nuncupatory, nuncupative, cognominal, titular, nominal, orismological, beggar'd all description.
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