* charactonym: a name of a fictional character reflected in his personality traits, such as Shakespeare's Pistol or Bottom ( compare with " aptronym ")

An aptronym ( also: aptonym ) or charactonym is a name aptly suited to its owner.

A related term, to refer to a name peculiarly suited to its owner, is aptronym, said to have been coined by the US newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams.

Capricious selection from the available allocation could result in clever meanings and result in an aptronym or backronym although policy was to select words that had no obviously deducible connection with what they were supposed to be concealing.

Adams is credited with coining the term " aptronym " for last names that fit a person's career or job title, although it was later refined to " aptonym " by Frank Nuessel in 1992.

* aptronym ( 2003 ; popularized by Franklin Pierce Adams )

Synonyms and / or related concepts include: aptronym, apronym, aptonym, jobonymns, ' namephreaks ', onomastic determinism, ' perfect fit last names ' ( PFLNs ), psychonymics and, classically, the notion that nomen est omen, or όνομα ορίζοντας.

The distinction between cognitive determinacy and a mere aptronym is seen as subtle but fundamental: i. e. post hoc vs propter hoc.

Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

* 泡沫紅茶 (): " foam red tea ", by direct translation, is the drink that is more appropriate for the more literal name of " bubble tea "; however, the English name, foam tea, is not used much throughout Asia.

Whether these were consisted only of Goths is rather unlikely so the name " Scythians " by which the Greek sources called them ( a geographical definition ) seems more appropriate.

Domain name resolvers determine the appropriate domain name servers responsible for the domain name in question by a sequence of queries starting with the right-most ( top-level ) domain label.

The American College of Clinicians and at least one state recommends that health care professionals, including physicians, in the clinical setting use identification with an appropriate badge or name tag, as patients encounter a number of different practitioners.

The formal name of an exoplanet is obtained by appending the appropriate suffixes to the formal name of the host star or stellar system.

Since buckminsterfullerenes have a shape similar to that sort of dome, the name was thought appropriate.

Daniel Dubuisson writes that " what the West and the history of religions in its wake have objectified under the name ' religion ' is ... something quite unique, which could be appropriate only to itself and its own history.

Maxwell and von Helmholz accepted indigo as an appropriate name for the color flanking violet in the spectrum.

The Golden Age was infinitely superior to the present age, an age so corrupt there is not even an appropriate metal to name it.

He receives the insignia of his honor and may place the appropriate letters after his name or title but he may not be called Sir and his wife may not be called Lady.

But this form of itself would hardly be appropriate as a proper name without some additional syllable such as Yah, whence mal ' akhiah, i. e. " messenger of Yahweh.

This name arguably became more appropriate following division than it had been when the territories actually extended far into Canada's north-central and northeastern areas.

The Latin legend reads: (" so great a name ( has ) no adequate praise " or " no eulogy ( would be appropriate to ) such a great name ").

" Warp " had originally been the internal IBM name for the release: IBM claimed that it had used Star Trek terms as internal names for past OS / 2 releases, and that this one seemed appropriate for external use as well.

Many important restrictions of this type, like checking that identifiers are used in the appropriate context ( e. g. not adding an integer to a function name ), or that subroutine calls have the appropriate number and type of arguments, can be enforced by defining them as rules in a logic called a type system.

If the members of the task group agree that the name is appropriate, it can be retained for use when there is a request from a member of the scientific community that a specific feature be named.

The primary usage of polymorphism in industry ( object-oriented programming theory ) is the ability of objects belonging to different types to respond to method, field, or property calls of the same name, each one according to an appropriate type-specific behavior.

What's its name??

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.

It is the same ole same, tell me its name.

On May 11,330, A.D.,, its name was changed again, this time to Constantinople after its emperor, Constantine.

When that was broken up after the First World War, its name was changed once more.

This indicates that this drug is being marketed under one trade name only or state regulatory organizations have approved its use on the feed tag.

The name thyroid-stimulating hormone ( TSH ) has been given to a substance found in the anterior pituitary gland of all species of animal so tested for its presence.

The line soon lived up to its name, as local messages of moderate length could be sent for a dime and the company was quickly able to declare very liberal dividends on its capital stock.

The Institute derives its name from Paul Von Groth's Chemische Krystallographie, a five-volume work which appeared between 1906 and 1919.

Undoubtedly none of the residents realize the influence their town has had on American military history, or the deeds of valor that have been done in its name.

The great column from which the square takes its name was erected by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

`` Such a vicious statement can only have its origin in the desire of a new political candidate to try to make his name known by condemning a man of world stature.

In the latter year Samuel Hopkins, from whom the Hopkinsian strain of New England theology took its name, asked the Continental Congress to abolish slavery.

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

" Historian Donald described the speech as a " superb political move for an unannounced candidate, to appear in one rival's ( William H. Seward ) own state at an event sponsored by the second rival's ( Salmon P. Chase ) loyalists, while not mentioning either by name during its delivery.

The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.

The most famous such organism is Amoeba proteus ; the name amoeba is variously used to describe its close relatives, other organisms similar to it, or the amoeboids in general.