NAME


Meaning of NAME in English

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

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .