What's the difference between byname and pseudonym?

Byname


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give a nickname to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An antibody specific for chromomycin A3 (CHM; byname, toyomycin) was produced in sufficiently high titer in rabbits by immunization with a CHM-bovine serum albumin conjugate, prepared using diazotized p-aminobenzoic acid as a coupling agent.

Pseudonym


Definition:

  • (n.) A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author; a pen name.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In case you've managed to avoid gatherings where it's been discussed (which is a long shot, but perhaps your friends are hard, angry, silent drinkers, in which case, you've got lucky), this involves combining the name of your first pet with your mother's maiden name to create the pseudonym you'd use if you were a porn star.
  • (2) Her celebrated experiment with a pseudonym as a demonstration of the hurdles facing unknown writers being just one example.
  • (3) The Long Walk is one of the famed "Bachman Books" , novels that King wrote before he was published in his own name, and that were only published (under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) in the wake of the success of Salem's Lot .
  • (4) Pseudonyms are used instead of the participants' names.
  • (5) When he discovered his phone had been tapped, Sarkozy allegedly obtained another phone under the pseudonym Paul Bismuth, to talk to his lawyer.
  • (6) In reality, the only harm that could ever come the way of these pseudonymous CIA agents would be in the form of more lawsuits from victims, given that the Justice Department gave up trying to prosecute any of them, and the White House gave up on even a modicum of accountability a while ago.
  • (7) According to Croatia's Zagreb newspaper Jutarnji List, Mladic had been living under the pseudonym Milorad Komadic.
  • (8) Bhagwan Chowdhry, a professor of finance at UCLA, last month suggested nominating Nakamoto for the 2016 Nobel prize in economics in recognition of his innovation, but Nakamoto’s pseudonymous identity meant he was ineligible.
  • (9) Mohammad Moslawi is the pseudonym of an Iraqi journalist working in Mosul
  • (10) Shortly afterwards, under a pseudonym, the informant admitted 20 serious offences and asked for 31 more to be taken into consideration.
  • (11) When asked what his plans are, he smiles and says: “I am getting married in April.” • Dani Patteran is a pseudonym
  • (12) Theresa May should be able to exercise sensible border control and stop him holding these seminars in our country.” The Change.org petition, drawn up by a city worker using the pseudonym Caroline Charles to protect herself from abuse, says Blanc and his association Real Social Dynamics (RSD) promote “sexist, racist and criminal approaches to women”.
  • (13) Now he lives in a safe house run by a Honduran charity, and asked only to be identified with a pseudonym.
  • (14) Next month, the former leader of the English Defence League, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, often known by the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, will make his political comeback by fronting the relaunch of the UK arm of Pegida, the German anti-Islam organisation whose provocative rhetoric has prompted attacks on refugees .
  • (15) Elizabeth Sigmund was a friend of Sylvia Plath's and, along with her husband David, a dedicatee of The Bell Jar when Plath first published it under the pseudonym of Victoria Lucas.
  • (16) One of which he is particularly proud is from Becky Hope, the pseudonym of a social worker whose memoir All in a Day's Work chronicles her years in child protection.
  • (17) Faith films may not be critically credible, yet, but some of the same people work on them, pseudonymously, as do on hipper indie movies.
  • (18) Three polyphosphorylated dinucleosides given the pseudonyms of HS3, HS2, and HS1 that were erroneously described as diguanosine polyphosphates (LéJohn, H. B., Cameron, L. E., McNaughton, D. R. & Klassen, G. R. (1975) Biochem, Biophys, Res, Commun.
  • (19) The biggest fight seems to be over the CIA’s efforts to black out the pseudonyms of CIA agents used in the report.
  • (20) By this time, he had begun to publish, at first pseudonymously, articles and reviews which, among other things, did much to draw attention to the burgeoning Soviet school of English 17th-century studies.