Over on Stackoverflow, I keep seeing questions wherein posters say: *I have an item named SoAndSo (a table, a file, etc.). Shouldn't it be: *I have an item called SoAndSo. Is "named" an accepta...

Aug 3, 2014 · Clearly "named after" means something along the lines of "These drawings are by Smith after those of Jones" where the "after" meaning "following as a consequence", so understood to …

May 7, 2019 · People are both named and called. You are "named" at birth by your parents, and "called" by other people during your lifetime. In your examples, however, I would use neither verb. "The first …

Aug 1, 2018 · However, termed is much more formal and is often used to describe very specific concepts in multiple different fields. named, on the other hand, is a bit less formal and thus, much …

If I were to use the sentence "There are lots of John Smiths" in the world, would that be the correct use for saying that there are a lot of people named John Smith in the world?

Jan 12, 2013 · Places, roads, streets etc., get named after famous people, too. Many inventions and discoveries have been named after people who invented or discovered them. But I am not yet aware …

The meanings of these words are very similar: the sine of an angle in a right triangle is the ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse; the secant is the ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent...

Jan 12, 2012 · The word namefellow or name-fellow, although rather obscure, does have exactly the meaning you're after, without the connotation of namesake that both people are named after the …

None of these seem to be proper, given that eponym and eponymous are used for people or things that are named after a person. Since the Tower Bridge is not a person, these terms should not be used.

Jan 4, 2014 · I have named him who shall not be named and She made him who he is today are very different structures; 'who shall not be named' is a relative clause whereas 'who he is today' is a …