(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.
Synonym
Definition:
(n.) One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous.
Example Sentences:
(1) NNG codons are preferred over the synonymous NNA codons 5' to the positions of lysine in the genes.
(2) Aeromonas caviae is a later and illegitimate synonym of Aeromonas punctata.
(3) It has come to mean the objective description of the symptoms and signs of psychiatric illness, a synonym for clinical psychopathology as opposed to that other psychopathology which derives from psychoanalytic theory.
(4) I've seen DJs in clubs with beards that make them look more like Charles Manson on a scruffy day than the cutting edge of cool, but, apparently, the two are synonymous these days.
(5) Ribosomes programmed by different synonymous codons also differ in discriminating among near-cognate aminoacylated tRNAs.
(6) It is not synonymous, however, with increased intracranial pressure (ICP).
(7) Comparison of the two estimates suggests that during the course of evolution synonymous codon changes have accumulated in the alpha-chain-structural genes.
(8) A key for the determination, synonymes and diagnoses of the metacercariae of the 4 Ichthyocotylurus species are presented.
(9) The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double ).
(10) Follicular mucinosis is not synonymous with alopecia mucinosa but is analogous to other histologic reaction patterns of cutaneous epithelium such as epidermolytic hyperkeratosis, focal acantholytic dyskeratosis, and cornoid lamellation.
(11) The ratio of the number of nucleotide substitutions in the rodent lineage to that in the human lineage since their divergence is 2.0 for synonymous substitutions and 1.3 for nonsynonymous substitutions.
(12) Syrian peace talks break up after making only 'incremental progress' Read more “The child Omran is a victim of Assad’s barrel bombs and not the terrorism of Daesh,” wrote Kutaiba Yassin, a Syrian writer, using a synonym for Islamic State.
(13) Age differences in absolute decision time were greater for the synonyms than for the other word pairs, but the proportional slowing of decision time exhibited by the older adults was constant across word-pair type.
(14) An alternative process leads to the surprising conclusion that each non-synonymous site has accumulated as many as 2.6 substitutions, on the average, in the two lineages leading to humans and mice.
(15) Biocarbazin (DTIC synonym) is an anticancer drug acting as a purine analogue, as an alkylating agent, as a SH-group blocker.
(16) In addition, four synonymous substitutions with no amino-acid replacements were found at codons 51, 119, 163 and 175 in the LDH-A gene from the patient.
(17) "Corticoids" should not be used as a synonym for corticosteroids.
(18) Both the number of synonymous substitutions and the number of nonsynonymous substitutions in the CDR were found to exceed the corresponding numbers in the FR.
(19) Human P1 protein, which is the homolog of the 60- to 65-kD heat shock "common" antigenic protein of numerous pathogenic organisms (synonyms: HSP60, GroEL homolog, or chaperonin), has been expressed to high level in Escherichia coli cells.
(20) The atpB gene differed by two synonymous base substitutions, whereas the other two genes were identical in the two Aegilops cytoplasms.