Name vs Adjective - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between name and adjective

is that name is to designate for a role while adjective is to make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.

As a proper noun NAmE

is abbreviation of North American English|lang=en.

As an adjective adjective is

incapable of independent function.

name

English

Noun

(wikipedia name) (en noun)

Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

* Bible, Genesis ii. 19

Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

* Shakespeare

That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.

* 1904 , , (The Marvelous Land of Oz) :

So good a man as this must surely have a name .

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Reputation.

* 1604 , (William Shakespeare), :

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord / Is the immediate jewel of their souls.[http://www.bartleby.com/100/138.34.42.html]

* 1952 , (Old Testament), Revised Standard Version , Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13:

And David won a name for himself.[http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Rsv2Sam.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=8&division=div1]

A person (or legal person).

* Dryden

They list with women each degenerate name .

* second edition of, 2002, Graham Richards, Putting Psychology in its Place , ISBN 1841692336, page 287 [http://books.google.com/books?id=7bxvJIs5_wsC&pg=PA287&dq=names]:

Later British psychologists interested in this topic include such major names as Cyril Burt, William McDougall,.

* 2008 edition of, 1998, S. B. Budhiraja and M. B. Athreya, Cases in Strategic Management , ISBN 0074620975 page 79 [http://books.google.com/books?id=-IaKYHY0sogC&pg=PA79&dq=names]:

Would it be able to fight the competition from ITC Agro Tech and Liptons who were ready and able to commit large resources? With such big names as competitors, would this business be viable for Marico?

* 2009 third edition of, 1998, Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt, Tourism and Sustainability , ISBN 0203891058, page 29 [http://books.google.com/books?id=bM6MPBIFwkQC&pg=PA29&dq=names]:

International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and.

Those of a certain name; a race; a family.

* Macaulay

The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name , came every day to pay their feigned civilities.

(computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.

An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.

Synonyms

* proper name * See also

Derived terms

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Verb

(nam)
To give a name to.

* 1904:' , ''The Land of Oz'' — I will ' name the fellow 'Jack Pumpkinhead!'

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To mention, specify.

To identify as relevant or important

To publicly implicate.

To designate for a role.

Derived terms

* codename * misname * name after * name names * you name it

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adjective
English

Adjective
(-)
(obsolete) Incapable of independent function.

* 1899 , , Emerson and Other Essays , AMS Press (1969) (as [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13088 reproduced] in Project Gutenberg)

In fact, God is of not so much importance in Himself, but as the end towards which man tends. That irreverent person who said that Browning uses “God” as a pigment made an accurate criticism of his theology. In Browning, God is adjective to man.

(grammar) Adjectival; pertaining to or functioning as an adjective.

(legal) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.

* Macaulay

The whole English law, substantive and adjective .

(chemistry, of a dye) Needing the use of a mordant to be made fast to that which is being dyed.

Synonyms
* (incapable of independent function) dependent, derivative * (functioning as an adjective) adjectival * (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) procedural
Antonyms
* (applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure) substantive * (of a dye that needs the use of a mordant) substantive
Derived terms
* adjectival * adjective clause * adjective phrase * adjective patterns * proper adjective * common adjective
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia adjective)
(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or describes a noun’s referent.

The words “big” and “heavy” are English adjectives .

(obsolete) A dependent; an accessory.

(Fuller)

Hyponyms
* See also
Verb
(adjectiv)
To make an adjective of; to form or convert into an adjective.

* Tooke

Language has as much occasion to adjective' the distinct signification of the verb, and to adjective also the mood, as it has to adjective time. It has ' adjectived all three.

* 1832 , William Hunter, An Anglo-Saxon grammar, and derivatives (page 46)

In English, instead of adjectiving' our own substantives, we have borrowed, in immense numbers, ' adjectived signs from other languages