Alias vs Sobriquet - What's the difference?
alias | sobriquet |
Otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called.
(legal)
Another name; an assumed name.
(legal) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
(computing) An abbreviation that replaces a string of commands and thereby reduces typing when performing routine actions or tasks.
(signal processing) An spurious signal generated as a technological artifact.
(computing) To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
(signal processing, of two signals) to become indistinguishable
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A familiar name for a person (typically a shortened version of a person’s given name).
* 1862 , A. Banning Norton
As nouns the difference between alias and sobriquet
is that alias is another name; an assumed name while sobriquet is a familiar name for a person (typically a shortened version of a person’s given name).As an adverb alias
is otherwise; at another time; in other circumstances; otherwise called.As a verb alias
is to assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.alias
English
Adverb
(-)Synonyms
* AKACoordinate terms
* FKA, PKANoun
(es)Synonyms
* (another name) pseudonymSee also
*Verb
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* * ----sobriquet
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Alternative forms
* soubriquetNoun
(en noun)- "The Bard" is a sobriquet of English playwright William Shakespeare.
- The sobriquet of Johnny Appleseed attached to him, though his real name was Chapman, in consequence of his being ever engaged in gathering and planting appleseed and cultivating nurseries of apple trees.