In name only

Definition

name / neÇm / n ၁။ [C ] အမည္။ My name is Peter. ❍ Write your name and address here, please. ❍ Do you know the name of this flower? See also CODE-NAME, HOUSEHOLD NAME, MAIDEN NAME, PET NAME ၂။ (က) [sing] နာမည္ေကာင္း။ ဂုဏ္သတင္း။ The company has always had a name for reliability. ❍ This kind of behaviour gives students a bad name. ❍ She made a name for herself/ made her name as a writer of children's fiction. (ခ) ( esp US ) (in compounds) နာမည္ ႀကီး။ a big-name company. ၃။ [C] နာမည္ေက်ာ္။ Some of the biggest names in the art world were at the party. v ၁။ ~ sb/sth (after sb); ( US ) ~ sb/ sth (for sb) အမည္ ေပးသည္။ မွည့္ေခၚသည္။ He was named after his father (ie given his father's first name). ❍ They named their son John. ၂။ အမည္တပ္၍ ေျပာသည္။ Can you name all these plants? ❍ Police have named a man they would like to question. ❍ Everyone was there: John, Karen, Philip, to name but a few (ie giving only these as examples). ၃။ အတိအက်ေျပာသည္။ Name your price (ie Say what price you want to charge). ❍ They're engaged, but they haven't yet named the day (ie chosen and announced the day on which they will get married). ❍ Chairs, tables, cupboards—you name it (ie anything you can imagine), she makes it. ၄။ ~ sb (as sth) ေရြးခ်ယ္သည္။ ခန္႔အပ္သည္။ She has been named as the new head of department. ❏ by name [ IDM ] နာမည္ႏွင့္တကြ။ The headteacher knows all the pupils by name. ❍ I only know her by name . သူ႕ကို နာမည္သာ ၾကားဖူးပါတယ္။ ❏ by/ of the name of [ IDM ] အမည္ရိွ။ a young actor by the name of William Devlin. ❏ enter one's name/ put one's name down (for sth) [ IDM ] (ေက်ာင္း၊ ၿပိဳင္ပြဲစသည္၌) စာရင္းသြင္းသည္။ ❏ give one's name to sth [ IDM ] တစ္စံုတစ္ခု တီထြင္ ဖန္တီးသူ၏ အမည္ျဖင့္တြင္သည္။ Charles Macintosh gave his name to a type of raincoat. ❏ in the name of sb/ sth [ IDM ] ၁။ …က အပ္ႏွင္းထားေသာ အာဏာအရ။ I arrest you in the name of the law. ၂။ သက္ေသျပဳ၍။ တိုင္တည္၍။ In God's name, what are you doing? ၃။ အတြက္ေၾကာင့္။ အေၾကာင္းေၾကာင့္။ They did it all in the name of friendship. ❏ in name only [ IDM ] မည္ကာမတၱ။ The park exists in name only; houses have been built on the site now. ❏ name-dropping n [U] လူအထင္ႀကီးေအာင္ နာမည္ႀကီး အမည္ကို ထည့္သံုးျခင္း။ Name-dropping won't get you accepted any quicker. name-drop v ( -pp- ) ❏ one's name is mud [ IDM ] နာမည္ပ်က္ေၾကာင့္ ေဆးေဖာ္ ေၾကာဖက္မလုပ္။ They won't invite me. My name is mud at the moment. ❏ name names [ IDM ] နာမည္ေဖာ္ေျပာသည္။ He said someone had lied but wouldn't name names. ❏ the name of the game [ IDM ] အဓိကအခ်က္။ ပဓာန အခ်က္။ Hard work is the name of the game if you want to succeed in business. ❏ name-plate n အမည္ဆိုင္းဘုတ္ျပား။ a doctor's name-plate. ❏ put a name to sb/ sth [ IDM ] နာမည္မွတ္မိသည္။ I've heard that tune before but I can't put a name to it. ❏ take sb's name in vain [ IDM ] နာမည္တစ္လံုးကို မေလးမစား အသံုးျပဳသည္။ ❏ (have sth) to one's name [ IDM ] ပိုင္ဆိုင္သည္။ an Olympic athlete with five gold medals to his name ❍ She hasn't a penny to her name. ❏ under the name (of) sth [ IDM ] အမည္ခံ၍။ He writes under the name (of) Nimrod.

Examples

1. My name is Judith Kramer.
2. Please write your name
3. address
4. and telephone number on the list.
5. [name of] : What’s the name of this flower?
6. [name for] : I think it’s a great name for a band.
7. [call someone names] : They used to call me all kinds of names at school.
8. [a good/bad name] : These people have ruined the school’s good name.
9. [make a name for yourself/make your name (as something)] : He first made a name for himself as a singer.
10. [have/get a name for (doing) something] : We have a name for providing good value-for-money holidays.
11. Some of the biggest names in television were there.
12. She’s one of the most famous names in country music.