Over on Stackoverflow, I keep seeing questions wherein posters say: *I have an item named SoAndSo (a table, a file, etc.). Shouldn't it be: *I have an item called SoAndSo. Is "named" an …

Aug 3, 2014 · As a Brit, I'm used to the phrase named after being used to say how something got its name. For example, in Wikipedia's List of eponymous roads in London, we read that …

The meanings of these words are very similar: the sine of an angle in a right triangle is the ratio of the opposite side to the hypotenuse; the secant is the ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent...

Aug 1, 2018 · However, termed is much more formal and is often used to describe very specific concepts in multiple different fields. named, on the other hand, is a bit less formal and thus, …

Jan 12, 2013 · Places, roads, streets etc., get named after famous people, too. Many inventions and discoveries have been named after people who invented or discovered them. But I am not …

Apr 25, 2013 · What do you call a daughter with the same name as her mother? Is there a female equivalent for 'junior' in the english language?

Jun 13, 2017 · There should be a file, named something.txt. or There should be a file named something.txt.

Dec 15, 2010 · Named is preferred in your example, since you are formally giving a name to your method. Labelling (beyond the literal) generally infers that someone else has suggested an …

Jun 6, 2012 · What is the most suitable way to express that a sentence/word will be "replaced by" another sentence/word, from that point (in a text, for instance)? Henceforth called/named...

Is there an adjective to describe a work that has the same name as another work? The two works in question may or may not be related. For instance, instead of writing The movie The Nutty …