(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.
Vega
Definition:
(n.) A brilliant star of the first magnitude, the brightest of those constituting the constellation Lyra.
Example Sentences:
(1) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(2) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
(3) When Contostavlos wanted to stay an extra night at the luxury Las Vegas hotel, he told the court, his editors vetoed it.
(4) The deal gave Penn a Las Vegas casino for a fraction of what it cost to build the 390-room resort.
(5) Apple has used the month of January to launch revolutionary products before, in part as a way of diverting attention from its rivals presenting their latest inventions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which Apple does not attend, and that takes place the same month.
(6) Moments later, Deputy Chief Tom Roberts, of Las Vegas Metro, defused the situation by delivering the announcement that Cliven Bundy's cattle would be returned within 30 minutes.
(7) The other in Montreal, Canada, employed De Vega's semicircular annuloplasty in 17 cases.
(8) From 1978 through 1987, 321 patients who had functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR) associated with mitral or combined mitral and aortic valve disease underwent tricuspid annuloplasty with our modification of the original De Vega's annuloplasty technique.
(9) Combined with Jewish retirees, blacks and white casino workers, Latinos form the Democratic base in and around Las Vegas.
(10) The president will outline his long-anticipated plans during televised remarks, shortly after 8pm ET, before traveling to a largely Hispanic high school in Las Vegas on Friday where he will sign the action into force.
(11) Alexander said at the Defcon conference in Las Vegas that the NSA only collected data on Americans "incidentally, in targeting a bad guy" and that "the story we have millions or hundreds of dossiers on people is absolutely false".
(12) I lived in Las Vegas as a teenager, I’ve lived in Brighton, and London for probably a decade on and off.
(13) One of the reported claims against Incognito, which he has denied, is that he pressured Martin, a left tackle in his second year with the Dolphins, to pay $15,000 towards an unofficial players’ trip to Las Vegas that he did not attend.
(14) Sadly, as Ted's pitch observes, nobody knows what the future contains and in this instance, in all likelihood, it was the Chevy Vega, which according to Car and Driver "is on everyone's list for worst car of all time".
(15) Note that the areas where house prices have risen the most - Arizona, Las Vegas and California - are all areas that were hurt most deeply by the housing crash.
(16) The main event is expected at 9pm in Vegas but depends on the earlier fights and the last-minute gamesmanship.
(17) Speaking at the annual CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas, Horn confirmed the latest triptych of movies in the long-running space saga would kick off in 2015 with Star Wars: Episode VII.
(18) Until recently Frazier had been making regular appearances to sign autographs, including a trip to Las Vegas in September.
(19) Bradley (33-1-1, 13 knockouts) is coming off an impressive win over Brandon Rios last month in Las Vegas.
(20) Mother, which reunited former ITV Digital ad stars Monkey and Johnny Vegas for a PG Tips campaign, teamed up with graphic novel publishers Mam Tor to produce the comic.