What's the difference between name and namesake?

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.

Namesake


Definition:

  • (n.) One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the Independent prepares to bring out its new daily, i, what lessons could it take from its namesake in Portugal ?
  • (2) Photograph: Chloe Dewe Mathews His officer namesake later recorded the proceedings in his memoirs: "There are hooks on the post; we always do things thoroughly in the Rifles.
  • (3) Some had tears in their eyes as they listened to Francis's call for them not to be "part-time Christians" and to build up their church like his namesake, St Francis of Assisi, was called to do.
  • (4) One reader chose Zoë Heller's The Believers, about the dysfunctional Litvinoff family, another plumped for Sue Miller's While I Was Gone, in which a woman is forced to confront the murder of her best friend 30 years ago, a third pointed readers towards Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, about an Indian boy growing up in America.
  • (5) The current president, Benigno Aquino , is the only son and namesake of the late strongman’s political nemesis, whose assassination in 1983 led to the popular uprising three years later.
  • (6) Montgomery was nicknamed Rommel by some staff, after the German general in north Africa who fought against his British military namesake, on the grounds that "at least (Field Marshal) Montgomery was on our side".
  • (7) Asked if she has four fingers, like her namesake, a poker-faced colleague replied: "We don't know.
  • (8) "Back in the 1960s I broke down in the Mersey Tunnel and was towed out by Everton's ginger haired genius and his namesake dad," writes Jim Lynch, who probably shouldn't be described as a damsel.
  • (9) With the Australian strategist Lynton Crosby heading the Conservative party's election campaign, it is hardly surprising that Michael Howard has sought inspiration from his conservative namesake in Australia, John Howard.
  • (10) "I agree that Barry is a fine name for a keeper (presumably he's even more defensive than his namesake Gareth) but surely the coolest-named fellow in the respective teams is "Sunzu"!"
  • (11) Former Arsenal defender Scott Marshall – who worked with Lambert at both Wycombe Wanderers and Norwich – has been asked to prepare the team for Sunday’s FA Cup fifth round tie against Leicester along with his namesake Andy but it remains to be seen whether either will be considered for the role on a permanent basis.
  • (12) The dig director, Richard Buckley, said he would eat his hat if they found his namesake.
  • (13) And just like his namesake, this "Burmese Bin Laden" made a brazen call to arms: "Once we [have] won this battle, we will move on to other Muslim targets."
  • (14) Today's phone-in topics are annoying namesakes (a "Phil Collins" in Somerset is particularly furious), and between songs Lloyd tells me that the best song he's played so far today is Rebel Rebel, and the worst is the new Killers track.
  • (15) Gardner says he and his wife have no ill-feeling towards his namesake – they hold NatWest solely responsible for an “intolerable” situation that has caused them a huge amount of stress and inconvenience, as well as “significant financial loss”.
  • (16) In the 19th century, their namesake sent out his ragamuffin kids to pick the pockets of London gentlemen.
  • (17) The fast-talking 61-year-old shakes hands with one wearing a tiara and sash reading “Miss Columbus”, from a beauty pageant to celebrate its namesake’s arrival in North America.
  • (18) The authors' data on Salish Indian spirit sickness describes the contemporary condition as anomic depression, which is significantly different from its traditional namesake.
  • (19) Nowadays, while a modern Benin City has risen on the same plain, the ruins of its former, grander namesake are not mentioned in any tourist guidebook to the area.
  • (20) Two years later, renovations on Ralph Wilson Stadium have been completed, and its namesake, the franchise’s longtime owner, has passed away.

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