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NAMES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument
Example:
sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me
Synonyms:
name calling; names
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("names" is a kind of...):
calumniation; calumny; defamation; hatchet job; obloquy; traducement (a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb name
Context examples:
"There are many names for this picture," he said.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Test names of questionnaire questions associated with the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study-Activities of Daily Living Inventory (ADCS-ADL) for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).
(CDISC Questionnaire ADCS-ADL Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
Test names of questionnaire questions associated with the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).
(CDISC Questionnaire AIMS Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
However, the "Arm 1/Third Shot" and "Arm2/Third Shot" activities still need blinded names.
(Planned Activity Blinded Description, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
The exact names, codes and text that can be stored in a data field in an information management system.
(Permissible Value, NCI Thesaurus)
Though their names are similar, the thyroid and parathyroid glands are completely different.
(Parathyroid Disorders, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
Test names of questionnaire questions associated with the Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC Version (FAQ-NACC Version) for the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).
(CDISC Questionnaire FAQ-NACC Version Test Name Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)
May I know the names and residence of those friends?
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
That was Roberts' men, that was, and comed of changing names to their ships—ROYAL FORTUNE and so on.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
