(n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
(v. t.) To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
Example Sentences:
(1) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
(2) Nickname: SuperSarko the Omnipresident Quote: "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood."
(3) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(4) Now 7, Jackson said the boy, nicknamed Blanket as a baby, was his biological child born from a surrogate mother.
(5) In the original exchange, Scudamore warned Nick West, a City lawyer who works with the Premier League on broadcasting deals, to keep a female colleague they nicknamed Edna “off your shaft”.
(6) The Tories will try to stick him with the nickname 'Bottler Brown'.
(7) Barra’s main rivals in the single-speed category were Willo and a rider nicknamed Neu York, representing the Gorilla Smash Squad.
(8) Nicknamed Mr 10 Percent, Zardari spent several years in prison under previous administrations.
(9) But as Brigitte goes on to explain, Bordeaux laboured for decades under the nickname La Belle Endormie – sleeping beauty.
(10) Across town in Le Central restaurant, nicknamed Hollande's canteen, the atmosphere is jovial.
(11) His deputy, Dokuchayev, is believed to be a well-known Russian hacker who went by the nickname Forb, and began working for the FSB some years ago to evade jail for his hacking activities.
(12) Nicknamed “Mr Padre”, the left-hander had a 20-year career in Major League Baseball , all of it with San Diego.
(13) Burns' ability to ride out a storm earned him the nickname "Teflon Terry".
(14) A former Socialist party leader, he is a jovial, wise-cracking believer in consensus politics, who aides say never loses his rag and who so hates fights that he was once nicknamed "the marshmallow" within his own party, or "Flanby", after a wobbly caramel pudding.
(15) The best-known editions are the military versions covered in red plastic and shrunk to fit the pocket of an army uniform – hence the book's nickname in the west.
(16) When the old BBC governors – a system of governance that essentially dated back to 1922 – was dismantled in 2006 the outcry that there might be something quickly nicknamed Ofbeeb was deafening.
(17) Even the nickname given to him of Monsieur Flanby, after a caramel pudding, over his perceived wobbly political views, lost its relevance as he elaborated his programme.
(18) Since becoming Denmark's first female prime minister two years ago, Thorning-Schmidt has had to contend with the media nickname of "Gucci Helle", so called because of her fondness for designer clothes.
(19) Xinhua, Beijing’s official news service, said Micius, a 600kg satellite that is nicknamed after an ancient Chinese philosopher, “roared into the dark sky” over the Gobi desert at 1.40am local time on Tuesday, carried by a Long March-2D rocket.
(20) While it was always possible to wash down the superb Rhodesian beef with fine Portuguese and South African wines at several hotels, Salisbury had difficulty living up to its nickname of Surbiton in the Bush.
Username
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Example Sentences:
(1) UKExpat Some of the individuals who contacted us wish to remain anonymous and their first names or usernames have been used in this article.
(2) You have to create an online account in order to get any information about plans and costs, so I went through the process of creating a username and password, and gave my date of birth and zip code.
(3) If you are a reader of Cif and would like to participate, please send an email to David Shariatmadari (david.shariatmadari@theguardian.com) with a few lines about your experience and your Cif username and contact details.
(4) Facebook uses a similar system, where the @-symbol is used to initiate a username search for mentioning other users in posts.
(5) We recognise these stories might sensitive so if you’d like to submit something anonymously, we suggest setting up an account with a username that is different from your own, and make sure you turn your location data off.
(6) Within hours of the announcement, the Twitter username @pontifex_ln had nearly 2,000 followers.
(7) It is not clear how usernames will be integrated among them.
(8) Write a tweet with the word "iPad" in it, and you're pretty likely to receive a response – known as an "@-reply", because it consists of "@" followed by your username, the method used to contact people publicly – saying something along the lines of "Hey, I got a free iPad 2!"
(9) Of the 99m usernames, they found 20.59m were also being used for Taobao accounts, the ministry website said.
(10) In the latest case, hackers obtained a database of 99m usernames and passwords from a number of websites, according to a separate report on a website managed by the ministry of public security.
(11) In about 1998, someone with the username "napster" revealed to those present in an internet chatroom that he'd been working on a piece of software to fix the problem.
(12) The reply function means that "you can direct a message with a url to anyone as long as you know their username", he points out.
(13) Your Data When you use WhatsApp to communicate stories to the Guardian, we will receive your phone number and the public username you have set up.
(14) He found a 75GB cache of data generated by the botnet, which NetWitness has called Kneber after a username linking the infected systems.
(15) That failure led to a security breach that allowed attackers to compile a database of 4.6m Snapchat usernames and phone numbers.
(16) Users have been warned to be wary of "phishing" emails pretending to be updates or security information, and to urgently change the passwords on any sites or services that use the same password as their PSN username.
(17) Within hours of the attack being launched on Saturday the assailants had gained access to Gawker's database of usernames and passwords as well as the programs that are used to serve up the sites, known as their source code.
(18) The term "identifiers" is NSA jargon for information relating to an individual, such as telephone number, email address, IP address and username as well as their name.
(19) Of the 11 different camera products Lyne tested personally, three contained the much-publicised Heartbleed vulnerability , while four didn’t use any encryption at all, meaning a hacker could easily intercept data being sent to and from the cameras, including usernames and passwords.
(20) Onename, for example, allows you to turn your private key (a series of digits) into a simple username, and has big plans to be the primary connector that verifies identity across the web.