单词 | to get one's name from |
释义 | > as lemmasto get one's name from b. transitive. To obtain (a name). Now frequently in present tense in to get one's name from: to be so called after. ΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 32v Nacta also is..of diuersez shappez & quantitez as a melon or a cucurbit, taking or getyng diuerse namez after fourme & membrez. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Suffibulum, was an attyre, whiche the nunnes of Vesta dydde weare on theyr heedes,..wherwith they mocke ladyes..and thereby onely doo gette the name to be callydde Maskynge ladyes. 1634 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World (new ed.) I. xxxvii. x. 623 The Agat..is full of varietie in colours, whereby it hath gotten many names, for called it is Phassachates, Cerachates, Sardachates, Hæmachates, Leucachates, and Dendrachates. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 89 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Cuncam, for so it is more commonly called, though from its Metropolis it somtimes gets the name of Visiapour. 1741 A. Monro Anat. Human Bones (ed. 3) 17 The first [Vertebra], from its Use of supporting the globular Head, has got the Name of Atlas. 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds ix. 133 The ‘bull-snake’..an immense thing of four or five feet in length, which gets its name from its blunt head and thick clumsy body. 1954 R. Wailes Eng. Windmill iv. 50 The smock mill is said to get its name from a fancied resemblance to the obsolete smock frock of the countryman. 2008 Review (Rio Tinto) Mar. (Profile Suppl.) 15/2 Bauxite actually gets its name from a delightful and gastronomically noted village in southern France, Les Baux-de-Provence. < as lemmas |
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