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Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing.

A reputation.

An abusive or insulting epithet.

A person (or legal person).

Those of a certain name; a race; a family.

An authority; a behalf.

(computing) An identifier, generally a unique string of characters.

(UK, finance) An investor in Lloyd's of London bearing unlimited liability.

(ditransitive) To give a name to.

To mention, specify.

To identify as relevant or important

To publicly implicate by name.

(of a person) To disclose the name of.

To designate for a role. +

(Westminster system politics) To initiate a process to temporarily remove a member of parliament who is breaking the rules of conduct.

Any of several types of true yam (Dioscorea) used in Caribbean Spanish cooking.