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naming, vbl. n.|ˈneɪmɪŋ|
[f. name v.1 + -ing1.]
a. The action of the vb., in various senses, or the result of this.
a1300K. Horn (Laud MS.) 216 (220) ‘Horn child’, qwad þe king, ‘Wel brouke þou þi naming’. 1482Rolls of Parlt. VI. 204/2 Other Benefices of Cherchys, and namyng to the same. 1504–5in Brand Newcastle (1789) I. 641 [A priest] to have the same service, the same namyng, appointment and assignment..as is above expressed. 1579E. K. Gloss. Spenser's Sheph. Cal. Apr. 123 Neptune and Minerua stroue for the naming of the citie of Athens. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 249 An infamous strumpet; not worth a naming the second time. 1766Entick London IV. 52 They having had all along the naming of the weigh⁓master. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. i, Poetry itself is no other, if thou consider it, than a right Naming. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 276 Even in the infant the latent power of naming is almost immediately observable.
attrib.1825Greenhouse Comp. I. 204 Each being distinguished by its name written on a small naming-stick.
b. naming of parts: the process of becoming acquainted, or of acquainting others, with the essentials of an unfamiliar object or topic.
1946H. Reed Map of Verona 22 To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, To-day we have naming of parts. 1967Listener 15 June 782/2 The Carnegie Report..begins with a very plain ‘naming of parts’, which is vital if the different forms of television are to be easily distinguished. 1967Punch 26 July 135/2 We all know the experience, when we take up any new subject..of taking in..an enormous new naming-of-parts, so that we are able to make the distinctions the new subject demands. 1971Guardian 29 Sept. 20/4 Many of the eruptions over topics like sex-education..spring..from a resistance to what may be summed up in the old grammarian's phrase, ‘The naming of parts’. 1975Nature 10 Apr. 483/1 (heading) Teleost ancestry, or naming of parts. Ibid. 483/3 Patterson has been meticulous in naming of parts, that is in tracing homologous structures throughout his series of fishes and naming them accordingly.
▸ naming and shaming: the public disclosure of (perceived) wrongdoing or failure on the part of a person or institution; (also) the exposure of private behaviour to public censure.
1990Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 21 Jan. 2 After the naming and shaming of Lord Dervaird, four other judges..became the subject of more homosexual gossip, apparently unfounded. 1996Daily Mail (Nexis) 2 Sept. 6 Curfews. Electronic tags. And now, courtesy of that Houdini of the Home Office Michael Howard, the ‘naming and shaming’ of young offenders. 1999Guardian 22 June i. 25/1 This would continue the government's policy of ‘naming and shaming’ to encourage companies to be greener without legislation. |