give name to

Verb

 * 1)  To express (something) in words; to identify by name.
 * 2) * 1711, letter signed ‘T.’ in and  (eds.), , No.145, 16August, 1711, in The Works of Joseph Addison, New York: Harper, 1850, Volume1, p.218,
 * The skirt of your [men’s] fashionable coats forms as large a circumference as our [women’s] petticoats; as these are set out with whalebone, so are those with wire, to increase and sustain the bunch of fold that hangs down on each side; and the hat, I perceive is decreased in just proportion to the head-dresses. We [women] make a regular figure, but I defy your mathematics to give name to the form you [men] appear in.
 * 1) * 1977,, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” in , Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984, p.36,
 * it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are—until the poem—nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.
 * 1)  To lend one's or its name to (something); to be the source of the name of (something).
 * 2) * 1817,, , London: Ward, Lock, Introduction, p.xii,
 * the author must now offer some notices of the individual who gives name to these volumes
 * 1)  To give a name to (a person or animal).
 * 2) * 1568, , London, Table setting out the genealogy of Adam,
 * And Adam gaue name to the woman, which was made of his ribbe (while he was a sleepe) and called her EVA, as he gaue name to al other creatures.
 * 1)  To give a name to (a person or animal).
 * 2) * 1568, , London, Table setting out the genealogy of Adam,
 * And Adam gaue name to the woman, which was made of his ribbe (while he was a sleepe) and called her EVA, as he gaue name to al other creatures.
 * And Adam gaue name to the woman, which was made of his ribbe (while he was a sleepe) and called her EVA, as he gaue name to al other creatures.