(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.
Wainwright
Definition:
(n.) Same as Wagonwright.
Example Sentences:
(1) That's the sixth hit allowed tonight dor Wainwright.
(2) After the action-packed opening two innings the Cardinals, and particularly Wainwright, settled and the runs dried up.
(3) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
(4) Leaving aside those who make difficult interviewees because they are difficult people, Sally Wainwright is probably the most difficult interviewee ever.
(5) Nothing doing for Marte who can do nothing with an inside fastball - that's four strikeouts now for Wainwright - at least Marte saw 12 pitches, but that's small consolation down seven runs.
(6) BBC1’s police thriller Happy Valley, starring Sarah Lancashire set in the Calder Valley and written by Sally Wainwright , will return for a third series after its second pulled 7 million viewers.
(7) Updated at 5.08am BST 2.26am BST Not Terry Francona (@NotCoachTito) Next inning: The Cardinals continue to depress their fans by telling them their childhood pets didn't go to a farm... @LengelDavid October 24, 2013 2.24am BST Red Sox 5 - Cardinals 0, bottom of 3rd The good news is that Wainwright has his first 1-2-3 inning of the night.
(8) Adam Wainwright , P Robinson is in and up at second, while Beltran and Holliday swap places.
(9) Matheny is on the top step - will he come and get Wainwright to get a lefty to face Ellsbury?
(10) Sir Chris took the side of those who backed the zipwire as a novel and exciting way of attracting new and younger visitors to the fells which William Wordsworth and the 20th century guidebook master Alfred Wainwright trod.
(11) A. Wainwright, P The Washington Nationals have their standard lineup as well.
(12) If the UK opts out of Europol and other JHA [justice and home affairs] measures the benefits of such co-operation cannot be guaranteed after 1 December this year, which has obvious implications in terms of public safety and national security.” Wainwright added: “If the UK does not rejoin Europol then you put at risk the benefits the UK enjoys.” Membership of Europol allows British law enforcement officers to share intelligence and design operations with European police forces to tackle serious organised crime groups plaguing the UK and to boost counter-terrorism investigations and the countering of extremism.
(13) Wainwright, 50, was born in Huddersfield and brought up in the Halifax and Calder Valley area, where Happy Valley is set, and studied English at York University.
(14) Some – including the Guardian’s architecture and design critic Oliver Wainwright – suggested it was a “strange time” to be opening the biggest civic library in Europe.
(15) Wainwright grew up between Huddersfield and Brontë country in Yorkshire.
(16) Although the double-decker bus height sarsens are undoubtedly the most impressive, Darvill and Wainwright believe they were essentially an architectural framework for the bluestones, just as towering medieval cathedrals grew over the shrines of saints.
(17) A fractured right mandible with midlength nonunion and oral lesions were noted in a subsistence-harvested female bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) near Wainwright, Alaska (USA).
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Over on the Guardian Cities site , Oliver Wainwright asks : If Apartheid ended 20 years ago, why is Cape Town still a paradise for the few?
(19) Burnett, who faces Adam Wainwright in Game One, and that shark tank of a bullpen, are your team here, especially when you consider the Redbirds bats were somewhat cooler in the second half.
(20) Few writers can make their characters speak with the kind of bristling naturalism that litters a Wainwright script.