I.
noun
1 word/words sb/sth is known by
ADJECTIVE
▪ Christian ( BrE ), first , given ( esp. AmE )
▪ middle , second (= middle name) ( BrE )
▪ family , last (see also surname ) , second (= last name) ( BrE )
▪ full
▪
His full ~ was William Augustus Grove.
▪ married
▪ maiden
▪ birth ( esp. AmE )
▪
Muhammad Ali's birth ~ was Cassius Clay.
▪ original
▪
St Petersburg has gone back to its original ~.
▪ proper , real , true
▪ pet
▪
His pet ~ for her was ‘Fluff’.
▪ assumed , fake ( esp. AmE ), false
▪ official
▪ joint ( esp. BrE )
▪
The account is in joint ~s.
▪ common
▪
‘Smith’ is a very common family ~.
▪ double-barrelled ( BrE ), hyphenated ( esp. AmE )
▪ personal
▪
The place takes its ~ from the Old English personal ~ ‘Catta’.
▪ pen (usually pen-name ) , professional , stage
▪
George Eliot was a pen-name; her real ~ was Mary Ann Evans.
▪ brand , proprietary , trade
▪ generic
▪ company
▪ scientific
▪
The scientific ~ for plants in this genus is Asclepias.
▪ code
▪ file
▪ user
▪
Please enter your user ~.
▪ domain
▪
You will need to register a domain ~ ( = an individual Internet address ).
▪ place , street
▪ band
▪
Their original band ~ was ‘Cherry Five’
VERB + NAME
▪ have
▪
Do you have a middle ~?
▪ bear , carry
▪
The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar and hence carries his ~.
▪ be known by , go by
▪
The island is more commonly known by the ~ ‘Krakatoa’.
▪
He goes by the ~ of Jonno.
▪ use
▪
She uses a different ~ in her professional life.
▪ share
▪
His wife and sister share the same ~, Sarah.
▪ acquire , get , obtain
▪
The Brady bill acquired its ~ from its best-known sponsor, James Brady.
▪ adopt , assume , take
▪
He was elected Pope in 1978 and took the ~ of John Paul II.
▪ keep
▪
She decided to keep her maiden ~ for professional purposes.
▪ abandon
▪ change
▪ carry on
▪
He wanted an heir to carry on the family ~.
▪ immortalize
▪
His ~ was immortalized in 1992 when he scored three times in the space of five minutes.
▪ choose , decide on , pick
▪ give sb/sth
▪
She was given the ~ Maria, after her grandmother.
▪ give sb , name , pass on
▪
Detectives believe that a hit man was sent to silence the witness before he could name ~s (= give evidence to the court/police) .
▪ reveal
▪ call sb/sth by
▪
Please call me by my first ~.
▪ call sb ~s
▪
Stop calling me ~s (= stop saying rude/insulting things about me) !
▪ call , call out
▪
Somebody called out her ~ from below.
▪ mention
▪
We cannot mention the suspect's ~ for legal reasons.
▪ drop
▪
All he did was drop ~s (= mention the names of famous people to impress people) .
▪ invoke
▪
He invoked the ~ of Freud in support of his argument.
▪ ask (sb)
▪
I asked him his ~.
▪ hear
▪
I've heard that ~ mentioned before.
▪ catch
▪
I'm sorry, I didn't catch your ~.
▪ know
▪
How do you know my ~?
▪ forget , remember
▪
I'm afraid I've forgotten your ~.
▪ print , sign , write
▪ spell
▪ pronounce
▪ enter , put down , register
▪
Have you put your ~ down for (= applied to take part in) the school play?
▪ list
▪ put forward ( esp. BrE )
▪
They put his ~ forward (= chose him) as one of the five candidates for the post.
NAME + VERB
▪ appear
▪
The ~ of the artist appears on the vase.
▪ sound …
▪
His ~ sounds familiar.
▪ imply sth , suggest sth
▪
As the ~ implies, Oxford was the place at which oxen could ford the river.
▪ be synonymous with sth
▪
His ~ is synonymous with the worst excesses of sixties architecture.
▪ be associated with sth , be attached (to sth)
▪
I do not want my ~ associated with these products.
▪
He's been in four movies with Spielberg's ~ attached.
▪ mean sth
▪ come from
▪
Where does the band ~ come from?
▪ ring a bell ( figurative )
▪
‘Does that ~ mean anything to you?’ ‘Yes, it does ring a bell (= it is familiar) .’
NAME + NOUN
▪ badge , tag
▪ plate (usually nameplate )
▪
She had her nameplate on the door.
▪ recognition
▪
Coca Cola's global brand ~ recognition
PREPOSITION
▪ by ~
▪
The teacher knows every student by ~.
▪ by the ~ of
▪
an actor by the ~ of Tom Rees
▪ in sb/sth's ~
▪
The tickets were booked in the ~ of McLean.
▪
I arrest you in the ~ (= on the authority) of the law.
▪ under a/the ~
▪
The room was booked under (= using) a false ~.
▪ ~ for , ~ of
▪
The common ~ for the flower is ‘pineapple lily’.
PHRASES
▪ a change of ~
▪ give your ~ to sth
▪
The Huron people gave their ~ to one of the Great Lakes.
▪ a list of ~s
▪ ~ and address
▪ ~s and faces
▪
I have a bad memory for ~s and faces.
▪ put a ~ to sb/sth
▪
I couldn't put a ~ to the face ( = didn't know or couldn't remember the person's name ).
▪
He put his ~ to the business (= gave it his name) .
▪ take sb's ~ in vain
▪
to take the Lord's ~ in vain
▪
Have you been taking my ~ in vain (= showing lack of respect when using my name) ?
2 reputation
ADJECTIVE
▪ big
▪ good
▪ bad
VERB + NAME
▪ have
▪ become
▪
She has become a big ~ in documentary photography.
▪ make
▪
He made his ~ writing travel books.
▪
She's made quite a ~ for herself.
▪ acquire , get
▪
The area got a bad ~ after a series of nasty murders.
▪ protect
▪
They tried to protect the good ~ of the college.
▪ clear
▪
Throughout his years in prison, he fought to clear his ~.
▪ give sb
▪
This kind of conduct gives students a bad ~.
▪ blacken ( esp. BrE ), damage ( esp. BrE ), sully
▪
These articles have damaged the good ~ of the newspaper.
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ for
▪
The company has a ~ for reliability.
PHRASES
▪ sb's ~ is mud
▪
If you tell our secret your ~ will be mud (= you will not be popular) around here.
3 famous person/thing
ADJECTIVE
▪ big , familiar , famous , household , recognizable , well-known
▪
He is a big ~ in the world of rock music.
II.
verb ( often be named )
1 to give sb/sth a name
ADVERB
▪ originally
▪ appropriately , aptly , suitably , well
▪ correctly
▪
He correctly ~d the song from the clip played.
▪ curiously , delightfully ( esp. BrE ), exotically , grandly , improbably , oddly , quaintly ( esp. BrE ), strangely , wonderfully
▪
the curiously ~d Egg Castle
▪ unfortunately
▪ confusingly
▪ euphemistically
▪ ironically
▪ officially
▪
The ship will be officially ~d by the Queen before setting sail from her home port.
PREPOSITION
▪ after
▪
I ~d my son after my father.
▪ for ( AmE )
▪
the dead sister for whom she had been ~d
▪ in honour/honor of
▪
The hospital was ~d in honour/honor of its principal benefactor.
2 to choose sb for a job/position
ADVERB
▪ formally , officially
▪
The President officially ~d Kirk as his choice to replace Timms.
PREPOSITION
▪ to ( AmE )
▪
She was recently ~d to the company's board of directors.
PHRASES
▪ newly ~d
▪
the newly ~d head coach
Name is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ baby , ↑ chief , ↑ chief executive , ↑ fellow , ↑ file , ↑ heir , ↑ name , ↑ ship , ↑ source , ↑ squad , ↑ successor , ↑ suspect