naming
nay ming
- n the verbal act of naming
the part he failed was the naming of state capitals - n the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
- v assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
- v give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property
- v charge with a function; charge to be
- v create and charge with a task or function
- v mention and identify by name
- v make reference to
- v identify as in botany or biology, for example
- v give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
- v determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis
- s inclined to or serving for the giving of names
- He sold the naming rights to laboratories, buildings and eventually four of the school's six campuses.
- Eisenhower and Kennedy began the tradition of consulting the evangelist, but Johnson, Nixon and Ford intensified the fashion that concluded with Bush's naming him "America's pastor.
- BIO One of Wall Street's star technology-stock analysts, Meeker is perhaps best known for naming Microsoft, America Online, Compaq and Dell as good buys when their stock prices were .