单词 | to go by the name of |
释义 | > as lemmasto go by the name (also title, etc.) of (a) To be called or known by a specified name or title. Also to go by the name (also title, etc.) of. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > have or bear (name) > be known as to go under the name of1566 to pass under (also by)a1643 1566 J. Rastell Third Bk. beware of M. Iewel f. 50 Vnderstanding by Monasteries, such places as commonly now in this Age, goe vnder that name. 1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. xv. 1307 Considering howe ordinarilye it hath gone by these names. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 193 The princes foole!..it may be I goe vnder that title because I am merry. View more context for this quotation 1687 Bp. G. Burnet Contin. Refl. Mr. Varillas's Hist. Heresies 12 That Book that goes by the name of P. Martyr's Common Places. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 254 Wax, which..goes by the name of Terra Orellana. 1761 Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 464 There are four distinct species of birds, that go under the general name swallow. 1804 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry i. i. 1 He had gone by the name of Captain ever since. 1830 Sheffield Independent 27 Mar. The law which generally goes under the title of ‘Peel's Bill’. a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. xxiii. 92 The monk who..sometimes went by the alias of Johnson. 1933 W. W. Robbins & F. Ramaley Plants useful to Man 245 The plant spread throughout the southern part of the United States where naturalized forms have long gone by the name of ‘Indian peach’. 1952 San Antonio (Texas) Light 12 May The Audiophiles..is a little group of San Antonio music lovers who..used to go under the name of the High Fidelity Music Reproduction club. 2008 E. Segalstad & J. Hunter 27s 34 A character who went by the moniker One-Eyed Clancy owed Dyke money for heroin. < as lemmas |
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