(n.) A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.
(n.) An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.
(v. t.) To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.
Example Sentences:
(1) After excluding isonymous matings the chi-square values for unique and nonunique surname pairs remained significant for both religious groups.
(2) 7.20pm BST An email from Artie Prendergast-Smith This could be a long night of long surnames.
(3) However, the overall pattern of results for rare surnames showed a measure of agreement with what is already known of the genetics of twinning.
(4) Yassine, who declined to provide his surname, is the son of a Parisian jewellery designer and a "not that famous" French artist.
(5) Both the father and mothers' surnames are passed on in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, but the father's name is more often used day-to-day.
(6) The program kept asking what my surname at birth was - annoying, since, despite getting married in 1994, I've had the same surname all my life.
(7) Because many Southern California Indians have Spanish Surnames and most do not reside on an Indian reservation it is shown that the suicide statistics may represent an over-estimation of actual Mexican-American suicidal deaths while simultaneously representing an under-estimation of the suicides among American Indians of the region.
(8) Her fellow tenants at 28 Barbary Lane, Mona Ramsey and Brian Hawkins had surnames drawn from my Southern father's self-published family history.
(9) My surname, though, is so late in the alphabet that I'm normally one of the "62 others".
(10) There was a convergence of Spanish surname rates toward the other White rates for nearly all sites, regardless of whether other Whites showed increasing, decreasing, or stable rates.
(11) Great news for Arsenal fans, who, if the summer transfer of Mesut Özil was anything to go by, love nothing more than to pull people up on the internet for accidentally forgetting to add diacritics to people's surnames.
(12) The following March, it was ceremonially opened by none other than Tony Blair, who was presented with a Middlesbrough FC shirt bearing his surname.
(13) But it clashed with other things.” Asked what his reaction would be now, he said: “I’d jump at it.” Blessed – who is also fondly remembered for another sci-fi role, appearing as Prince Vultan in the movie Flash Gordon – appeared to be a little confused about the Doctor’s surname, inaccurately suggesting the “Who” of the title was actually the character.
(14) To some the disadvantages of having a famous surname can be almost as significant as the advantages.
(15) On the example of 7 populations of the regional level allowability of using surnames with frequencies exceeding 0.001 in adequate estimation of the population structure indices is shown.
(16) Since given names show none of the localisation seen in surnames, the surname geography is ascribable to genetic rather than cultural factors of personal naming.
(17) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
(18) This study examined the correlations between academic achievement and factor specific, as well as global, measures of self-concept for 314 fourth and sixth grade boys and girls divided into grade level groups with and without Spanish surnames.
(19) Valid contrast studies were possible in only one region within the city for all three groups and in six regions for white excluding Spanish-surnamed and nonwhite.
(20) Born in July 1954, Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne (his surname until he went to Oxford) has always been something of a Marmite politician, attracting both loyalty and affection, as well as brickbats and disdain.
Tiffany
Definition:
(n.) A species of gause, or very silk.
Example Sentences:
(1) A suspected jewel thief was killed and another seriously injured during a police chase after an attempted ram raid at one of the London branches of the jewellers Tiffany and Co yesterday.
(2) Alcoholics were assigned to four groups based upon differential scores on Rotter's Locus of Control and Tiffany's Experienced Control Scales.
(3) Tiffany Finck-Haynes, a bee specialist with Friends of the Earth, disagreed.
(4) They reportedly live together, sleeping two to a room apart from Tiffany , who has a room to herself.
(5) Prior to his appointment at the National Theatre of Scotland , Tiffany was an associate director at the new writing company Paines Plough and literary manager at the Traverse theatre in Edinburgh, for four years apiece.
(6) It’s Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s .
(7) Hope The government cuts and how they affect local authority spending come under scrutiny in the latest play from Jack Thorne, which reunites him with director John Tiffany, with whom he worked on Let the Right One In.
(8) Lots of girls – and some boys – say they like Tiffany because she is real, and she gets on with things and doesn't complain until it is necessary and does the job that is in front of her all the time.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On watching Mistress America, I filed it as a riff on Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s , with Brooke in the role of a 21st-century Holly Golightly.
(10) The vampire romance will form the centrepiece of the NTS's 2013 programme and will open at the Dundee Rep Theatre, with John Tiffany directing.
(11) John Tiffany , the Tony award-winning director of Once, proposed the re-reading to Sondheim and is workshopping the idea in New York with Daniel Evans, artistic director of Sheffield Crucible , playing Bobby.
(12) Ss attended two groups per week for 3 weeks and were administered the Experienced Control scale (Tiffany, 1967) before and after treatment and on follow-up.
(13) 46, Tiffany, and Midas are similar in performance to the high-gold alloy Rx O.R.Y.
(14) She also came bearing a limited edition Tiffany sterling silver honeycomb and bee bud vase.
(15) Undaunted by unpopularity, though he was never to make much money until he and Jasper Johns began to decorate the windows of Bonwit Teller and Tiffany under a joint pseudonym in the mid 50s, Rauschenberg pressed on with theatre designs for another Black Mountain friend, Merce Cunningham, and for Paul Taylor.
(16) The gallery will also have original film posters, magazine spreads and front covers including one from Life magazine in 1961 of Hepburn in Givenchy for her role in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
(17) The National Theatre of Scotland's story of the now amalgamated regiment came away with the most Olivier awards for an individual production, including best new play and, for John Tiffany, best director.
(18) I am not claiming that I know how to do Peter Pan for ever," Tiffany says.
(19) "To be honest, it's a little frustrating," said Tiffani Bishop, a same-sex rights campaigner based in Austin, Texas, who has taken part in the Campaign for Southern Equality's bid to improve gay rights.
(20) Also how to apply pressure in a competition, what she did to Tiffany Porter in the hurdles – she absolutely crushed her – I think she saw then, 'right, that's how to do it'."