What's the difference between appellation and surname?

Appellation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of appealing; appeal.
  • (n.) The act of calling by a name.
  • (n.) The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I would do so in consideration of the appellants' rights, to avoid the possibility of a miscarriage of justice, and in comity with the supreme courts' request for time to resolve the issues pending before it."
  • (2) A GABAergic projection that originates in the pretectal nuclei is directed towards the superficial layers of the SC in the cat (Appell and Behan, 1990) and rat (Van der Want et al., 1991).
  • (3) In a case involving a 4-year-old esotrope with retinoblastoma, a federal appellate court has held that, as a matter of law, the standard of care expected of an optometrist requires a dilated fundus examination conducted with the binocular indirect ophthalmoscope at the initial visit and periodically thereafter.
  • (4) "The rabbis are wonderful spiritual leaders and they should be doing what they do best, spiritual guidance," says Mark Meyer Appel, whose group Voice of Justice gives emotional support to victims and their families.
  • (5) One of the court’s liberal justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had previously indicated the court would consider a case on the issue if the appellate circuits were to disagree with each other on it.
  • (6) The prosecution also had to exclude the possibility that the appellant had determined to conduct meetings about parliamentary business with his staff member at a location other than Parliament House for reasons which he considered adequate.” Comment has been sought from Slipper, who served as the federal MP for the Queensland seat of Fisher from 1993 to 2013 and became embroiled in controversy in his final term in office.
  • (7) Several already published samples form a part of the present study, but their appellation do not correspond to the previous one; stricklingly, only few B3 (new appellation) have been described in the literature, which let one think that they might be undetected using classical grouping tests, and thus considered as normal B.
  • (8) The appellant’s actions towards these victims had long-term consequences for their lives.
  • (9) These findings, also present in human congenital myotonia [Butterfield, Chesnut, Roses & Appel, 1976, Nature (London) 263:159; Butterfield, 1977 (Submitted for publication)], strengthen the concepts that increased membrane fluidity is associated with the presence of myotonia and that congenital myotonia may be a diffuse membrane disease.
  • (10) As one contributor on the blog Quark Soup by David Appell put it : "Well, at least they considered it as an option."
  • (11) 6, 525-529), while in eukaryotes it is added post-transcriptionally by a special tRNA guanylyl transferase (Cooley, L., Appel, B., and Söll, D. (1982) Proc.
  • (12) Appellate courts in three states have now ruled that there is no legal difference between artificial feeding and any other medical treatment and that therefore feeding may be refused by a competent patient or, in appropriate circumstances, by the family or guardian of an incompetent patient.
  • (13) The source quoted the judge in the case, who said: "The evidence concerning the joint acquisition of Maya [the cat] by the appellant and his partner reinforces my conclusion on the strength and quality of the family life that appellant and his partner enjoy."
  • (14) This decision made the sixth circuit the first federal appellate court to rule against marriage equality since the landmark June 2013 decision that struck down parts of the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma).
  • (15) In its consultation document Ofcom said a successful appellant may get compensation and costs.
  • (16) A district (LG) and an appellate court (OLG) acknowledged the liability of the driver for injury to person and property damages.
  • (17) However, the ordering of retrials is relatively rare when an appellant has already served the sentence.
  • (18) In Howard v. Lecher a majority of the ''Appellate Division of the Supreme Court denied a cause of action against an obstetrician alleged to be negligent in not properly advising a couple about the dangers they were running, as potential carriers, in having a child afflicted with Tay-Sachs disease.''
  • (19) The public vote was eventually overruled in the case of Boaty McBoatface and the ship named the RRS Sir David Attenborough, with an onboard submersible receiving the Boatface appellation.
  • (20) Starting from the dramatic increase of suicide rates with age combined with a marked decrease in non-letal suicide attempts it is argued that normally suicide-inhibiting social norms become less effective as a person appraoches old age, thus weakening the appellative motivation components of suicidal behavior and strengthening evasive strivings.

Surname


Definition:

  • (n.) A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.
  • (n.) An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.
  • (v. t.) To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After excluding isonymous matings the chi-square values for unique and nonunique surname pairs remained significant for both religious groups.
  • (2) 7.20pm BST An email from Artie Prendergast-Smith This could be a long night of long surnames.
  • (3) However, the overall pattern of results for rare surnames showed a measure of agreement with what is already known of the genetics of twinning.
  • (4) Yassine, who declined to provide his surname, is the son of a Parisian jewellery designer and a "not that famous" French artist.
  • (5) Both the father and mothers' surnames are passed on in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, but the father's name is more often used day-to-day.
  • (6) The program kept asking what my surname at birth was - annoying, since, despite getting married in 1994, I've had the same surname all my life.
  • (7) Because many Southern California Indians have Spanish Surnames and most do not reside on an Indian reservation it is shown that the suicide statistics may represent an over-estimation of actual Mexican-American suicidal deaths while simultaneously representing an under-estimation of the suicides among American Indians of the region.
  • (8) Her fellow tenants at 28 Barbary Lane, Mona Ramsey and Brian Hawkins had surnames drawn from my Southern father's self-published family history.
  • (9) My surname, though, is so late in the alphabet that I'm normally one of the "62 others".
  • (10) There was a convergence of Spanish surname rates toward the other White rates for nearly all sites, regardless of whether other Whites showed increasing, decreasing, or stable rates.
  • (11) Great news for Arsenal fans, who, if the summer transfer of Mesut Özil was anything to go by, love nothing more than to pull people up on the internet for accidentally forgetting to add diacritics to people's surnames.
  • (12) The following March, it was ceremonially opened by none other than Tony Blair, who was presented with a Middlesbrough FC shirt bearing his surname.
  • (13) But it clashed with other things.” Asked what his reaction would be now, he said: “I’d jump at it.” Blessed – who is also fondly remembered for another sci-fi role, appearing as Prince Vultan in the movie Flash Gordon – appeared to be a little confused about the Doctor’s surname, inaccurately suggesting the “Who” of the title was actually the character.
  • (14) To some the disadvantages of having a famous surname can be almost as significant as the advantages.
  • (15) On the example of 7 populations of the regional level allowability of using surnames with frequencies exceeding 0.001 in adequate estimation of the population structure indices is shown.
  • (16) Since given names show none of the localisation seen in surnames, the surname geography is ascribable to genetic rather than cultural factors of personal naming.
  • (17) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
  • (18) This study examined the correlations between academic achievement and factor specific, as well as global, measures of self-concept for 314 fourth and sixth grade boys and girls divided into grade level groups with and without Spanish surnames.
  • (19) Valid contrast studies were possible in only one region within the city for all three groups and in six regions for white excluding Spanish-surnamed and nonwhite.
  • (20) Born in July 1954, Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne (his surname until he went to Oxford) has always been something of a Marmite politician, attracting both loyalty and affection, as well as brickbats and disdain.