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单词 give one's name to
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give one's name to

Invent, discover, or be the source of something which then becomes known by one’s name: the company’s founder, Henry Ford, gave his name to Fordism...
  • Although he only gave his name to the windscale because he popularised it, rather than invented it, he called himself a ‘meteorological philosopher’.
  • The god Hermes who gives his name to ‘hermeneutics’ was not only a thief, but also a mover, a shifter, of border and boundary markers - a warning to all interpreters!
  • In the Roman calendar she gives her name to ‘days of chastity’, puri dies, with which we may perhaps compare the Ember Days of the Christian Church.
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