NAMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does naming mean? 

• NAMING (noun)
  The noun NAMING has 2 senses:

1. the verbal act of naming

2. the act of putting a person into a non-elective position

  Familiarity information: NAMING used as a noun is rare.

• NAMING (adjective)
  The adjective NAMING has 1 sense:

1. inclined to or serving for the giving of names

  Familiarity information: NAMING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The verbal act of naming

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the part he failed was the naming of state capitals

Hypernyms ("naming" is a kind of...):

speech act (the use of language to perform some act)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "naming"):

acrophony (naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter)

numeration (naming numbers)

denotation; indication (the act of indicating or pointing out by name)

specification (naming explicitly)

Derivation:

name (identify as in botany or biology, for example)

name (mention and identify by name)

name (make reference to)

name (give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property)

name (assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of putting a person into a non-elective position

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

appointment; assignment; designation; naming

Context example:

the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee

Hypernyms ("naming" is a kind of...):

conclusion; decision; determination (the act of making up your mind about something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "naming"):

nomination (the act of officially naming a candidate)

co-optation; co-option (the act of appointing summarily (with or without the appointee's consent))

delegacy (the appointment of a delegate)

ordinance; ordination (the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders)

recognition (designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body)

Derivation:

name (create and charge with a task or function)

name (charge with a function; charge to be)

• NAMING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inclined to or serving for the giving of names

Synonyms:

appellative; naming

Context example:

the appellative function of some primitive rites

Similar:

denotative; denotive (having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming)

 Context examples 

A system for naming the stereoisomers of a molecule.

(E-Z Notation, NCI Thesaurus)

Standardized naming systems are available that define the groups within which a subject should be placed.

(CDISC SDTM Diagnosis Group Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

It acts as an authority in developing standards for the naming of the chemical elements and their compounds.

(International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, NCI Thesaurus)

Go on, my dear Fanny, and without fear; there can be no difficulties worth naming.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It would be unnecessary I am sure, for you to caution Mrs. Palmer and Sir John against ever naming Mr. Willoughby, or making the slightest allusion to what has passed, before my sister.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A nomenclature committee to standardize the naming of enzymes.

(Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, NCI Thesaurus)

Since this is the first object of its type ever discovered, rules for naming this type of object will need to be established by the International Astronomical Union.

(Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System, NASA)

If a gentleman was the victim of spies, intruders, and informers (but still naming no names), that was his own pleasure.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To antithesis was due his naming.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Naming the pathway the Intracellular Pathogen Response or 'IPR,' the scientists say it is a newly discovered way for animals to cope with certain types of stress and attacks, including heat shock.

(New Pathway for Handling Stress Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)