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Misname


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To call by the wrong name; to give a wrong or inappropriate name to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The taxpayer remains on the hook for Northern Rock (Asset Management), which has about £50bn worth of mortgages, many of which were parked offshore in the perfectly misnamed "Granite" vehicle, which turned to dust during the credit crunch.
  • (2) The disorder is somewhat misnamed, because it is characterized by heavy deposition of fibrin in the decidua beneath the placenta rather than by arterial occlusion and ischemic necrosis of villi.
  • (3) We propose that the generically misnamed phytopathogenic Pseudomonas species should be transferred to the genus Acidovorax as Acidovorax avenae and Acidovorax konjaci.
  • (4) The receptive field surround is misnamed since it extends throughout the receptive field center and contributes to the response of the bipolar cell to stimuli located anywhere within the receptive field.
  • (5) I had to leap out of the bed ... " Another read-through, a dress rehearsal (misnamed for radio, as the cast performed in the clothes they had arrived in) and then at midday the audience arrived.
  • (6) Let the misnamed, misguided "war on terror" that replaced law and ethics with permanent exceptionalism be over.
  • (7) Neuropsychological investigation established the following points: (1) the patient, in whom no expressive or receptive dysphasia could be found, misnamed objects when they were presented to him tactually, whereas he almost always gave the correct name when they were presented visually or auditorily; (2) the naming disturbance was identical when the object was presented to the left hand or to the right hand; (3) not only did the patient have no sensory deficit, but he could give unquestionable proof of correct tactile identification by using the objects presented to him tactually; (4) the defect appeared in the verbo-tactile as well as in the tacto-verbal direction; (5) it was not restricted to the name of the object since the patient was unable to describe, without making dysphasic errors, the morphology or usage of objects presented to him tactually; (6) the tacto-verbal dysfunction did not result from a tacto-visual impairment.
  • (8) Abortion was illegal, so those who could afford to do so went to an “osteopath” or similarly misnamed doctor.
  • (9) Some Americans have panicked over Europe’s woefully misnamed right to be forgotten, anxious at the thought of the “ biggest threat to free speech online” “erasing history” and “breaking the internet”.
  • (10) Whe he began to talk about what he was doing, he misnamed many test items and behaved as if they were what he had called them.
  • (11) The taxonomic relationships of both of these species, two groups of clinical isolates (E. Falsen [EF] group 13 and EF group 16), and several unidentified or presently misnamed strains were examined by using DNA:rRNA hybridization, numerical analyses of biochemical and auxanographic features and of fatty acid patterns, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of cellular proteins, and DNA:DNA hybridization.
  • (12) So we blithely dropped into our branch to see a misnamed customer service adviser who sucked his young teeth and said ooh no, they didn't offer anything like that.
  • (13) Some patients showed additional deficits including visual dyslexia, constructional dysgraphia and an increased rate of self-corrections and misnamings in object confrontation naming.
  • (14) A condition frequently misnamed "contracted tendons" is described in unweaned foals.
  • (15) The original misnamed an online bank account service for bitcoins as Bitwallet.
  • (16) (Confucius had complained millennia before that politically motivated misnaming led to the corruption of society.)
  • (17) Most errors were related to misnaming of diseases, certifying some diseases as occupational though they are not included in the mandatory list of occupational diseases, or--qualifying specific health disorders under improper items on the list.
  • (18) An earlier version misnamed Mike Bochenek as Mike Bostock.
  • (19) One reference in the original misnamed a constituency as Yorkshire and Humberside.
  • (20) DNA-rRNA hybridizations, DNA-DNA hybridizations, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of whole-cell proteins, and a numerical analysis of carbon assimilation tests were carried out to determine the relationships among the phylogenetically misnamed phytopathogenic taxa Pseudomonas avenae, Pseudomonas rubrilineans, "Pseudomonas setariae," Pseudomonas cattleyae, Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes subsp.

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.

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