(n.) One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you buy your tarragon from a garden centre, beware of that rather bitter, dragonish impostor, A. dracunculoides, or Russian tarragon, which is a much less refined and tasty thing.
(2) But the damage was done, leading the GOP establishment to suggest that Trump had finally been unmasked as a conservative impostor.
(3) "He was not simply an impostor seeking to profit solely off the name and reputation of Rick Ross.
(4) Few in the Square Mile tire of hearing about pre-results gaffes that have included a guard routinely taking a break after parking his security van outside a customer’s store before venturing inside to collect the takings, a pattern that allowed an impostor to don a G4S uniform and make off with £14,000 from the store’s tills; and (best of all) a prisoner tricking his G4S guards into tagging his prosthetic leg, thereby allowing him to skip his curfew by detaching the limb.
(5) Without impostors, nationalists and bandits, without tanks and APCs, and without secret visits of the director of the CIA … UPDATE: Medvedev again warned of civil war in Ukraine after a meeting Tuesday with his counterparts from Belarus and Kazakhstan, Reuters reports: Medvedev said on Tuesday he hoped that the authorities in the Ukrainian capital have "enough brains" to prevent a further escalation of the conflict in the east of the country.
(6) Manchester United ended the transfer window in farce and disappointment with the deal to sign Ander Herrera having failed after the club refused to pay his €36m buyout clause, while claiming that impostors in Spain attempted to muscle in on the deal.
(7) Syphilis remains the great impostor and still must be considered in the differential diagnosis of unexplained liver enzyme abnormalities, even in a patient with no symptoms or signs of early syphilis.
(8) Another impostor fooled Afghan, British and US intelligence in 2010, pocketing thousands of dollars in cash incentives for coming to peace talks before he was revealed not to be the high-ranking Taliban official he claimed.
(9) Shaffer's play is discussed as an illustration of this distinction and its relation to pseudoemotionality, the impostor syndrome, and the "as if" personality.
(10) The previous government, under Goodluck Jonathan, conducted high-level negotiations before realising it was talking to impostors.
(11) Don't be duped by the ostensibly tragic finale: that dead old man was just an impostor.
(12) Ukip denies all knowledge, spluttering that the leafleters are fifth columnists and impostors.
(13) At the Paris farm show, two feminists seeking to award her a prize “for being an impostor for the so-called defence of women” were removed by Le Pen’s security team.
(14) Capgras syndrome is characterized by a delusion of impostors who are thought to be physically similar but psychologically distinct from the misidentified person.
(15) Earlier in the year there were rumours that Prince William had registered, but it was later revealed to be a mere impostor.
(16) However, Rosen discovered that the cigar-smoking, paint-daubing impostor was born in 1960 or 1961 and had never been in a Tarzan film.
(17) In Last Man Standing , he writes that he suffered from "impostor syndrome", expecting that everything he'd achieved would inevitably be taken away from him.
(18) Two days on, there is still confusion at Old Trafford about the involvement of the three lawyers described on deadline night as "impostors" and United feel so strongly about it they have been willing to put their position on the record.
(19) It was found that over an extensive range of values for the equilibrium constant of a non-ideal isodesmic generating model, only a non-ideal monomer-dimer-tetramer-octamer was a successful impostor model.
(20) The other advantage of having a Taliban office is that it should reduce the risk of impostors presenting themselves as Taliban negotiators.
Name
Definition:
(n.) The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.
(n.) A descriptive or qualifying appellation given to a person or thing, on account of a character or acts.
(n.) Reputed character; reputation, good or bad; estimation; fame; especially, illustrious character or fame; honorable estimation; distinction.
(n.) Those of a certain name; a race; a family.
(n.) A person, an individual.
(n.) To give a distinctive name or appellation to; to entitle; to denominate; to style; to call.
(n.) To mention by name; to utter or publish the name of; to refer to by distinctive title; to mention.
(n.) To designate by name or specifically for any purpose; to nominate; to specify; to appoint; as, to name a day for the wedding.
(n.) To designate (a member) by name, as the Speaker does by way of reprimand.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(3) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
(4) intravesical, ureteroceles, which we have named 'ostioplasty', is presented.
(5) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
(6) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
(7) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(8) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
(9) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
(10) The high participation percentage also shows that the prerequisite of screening, namely, a positive attitude on the part of the population, was as well fulfilled in the present project.
(11) This novel mechanism of receptor regulation, named transmodulation, should be distinguished from the reduction in total receptor number caused by the homologous ligand (downregulation) and from the change in affinity produced by the binding of agonists or antagonists to the same receptor site.
(12) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(13) 3) The first who presumed an independent state of these microorganisms, was Kohlert (1968), from the work of which the epithet for correct name, i.e.
(14) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
(15) Glucocorticoids have been shown in in vitro systems to inhibit the release of arachidonic acid metabolites, namely prostaglandins (PGs) and leukotrienes, apparently, via the induction of a phospholipase A2 inhibitory protein, called lipocortin.
(16) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(17) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
(18) The genome characterization of the typing strains for all 13 species of the genus Staphylococcus, included into the Approval List of the Names of Bacterial (1980), is presented.
(19) L-NAME abolished B contractions in a dose-dependent fashion.
(20) Resistance to antibiotics have been detected in food poisoning bacteria, namely Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium perfringens.