What is the difference between name and noun?
name | noun | Synonyms |
Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.
* Bible, Genesis ii. 19
* Shakespeare
* 1904 , , (The Marvelous Land of Oz) :
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Reputation.
* 1604 , (William Shakespeare), :
* 1952 , (Old Testament), Revised Standard Version , Thomas Nelson & Sons, 2 Samuel 8:13:
A person (or legal person).
* Dryden
* 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]:
* 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]:
* 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]:
Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
* Macaulay
(computing) A unique identifier, generally a string of characters.
An investor in Lloyds of London bearing unlimited liability.
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.
(grammar, sensu lato) A name of a thing. Either a noun substantive, which can stand alone and does not require another word to be joined with it to show its signification, or a noun adjective, which can not stand by itself, but requires to be joined with some other word, in order to make sense.
(grammar, sensu stricto) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
To convert a word to a noun.
* 1992 , Lewis Acrelius Froman, Language and Power: Books III, IV, and V
* 2000 , Andrew J. DuBrin, The complete idiot's guide to leadership
Noun is a synonym of name.
In transitive terms the difference between name and noun
is that name is to designate for a role while noun is to convert a word to a noun.As a proper noun NAmE
is abbreviation of North American English|lang=en.name
English
Noun
(wikipedia name) (en noun)- Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
- That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.
- So good a man as this must surely have a name .
- 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]
- 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]
- They list with women each degenerate name .
- Later British psychologists interested in this topic include such major names as Cyril Burt, William McDougall,.
- 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?
- International non-governmental organisations (INGOs), including such household names as Amnesty International, Greenpeace and.
- The ministers of the republic, mortal enemies of his name , came every day to pay their feigned civilities.
Synonyms
* proper name * See alsoDerived terms
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(nam)Derived terms
* codename * misname * name after * name names * you name itSee also
* christen * cognomen * epithet * moniker * nom de guerre * nom de plume * pseudonym * sobriquetStatistics
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English
(wikipedia noun)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* (sensu stricto) In English (and in many other languages), a noun can serve as the subject or object of a verb. For example, the English words (table) and (computer) are nouns. See .Synonyms
* name, nameword * (sensu stricto) noun substantive, substantiveHyponyms
* (sensu lato) noun substantive = substantive, noun adjective = adjective * (sensu stricto) See alsoDerived terms
* abstract noun * adjectival noun * attributive noun * collective noun * common noun * concrete noun * count noun * mass noun * non-count noun * noun adjunct * noun clause * noun of assemblage * noun of multitude * noun phrase * plural noun * pronoun * proper noun * uncount nounSee also
* countableVerb
(en verb)- For example, that females are different from but equal to males is oxymoronic by virtue of the nouned status of female and male as kinds of persons.
- However, too much nouning makes you sound bureaucratic, immature, and verbally challenged. Top executives convert far fewer nouns into verbs than do workers at lower levels.