Meaning of Moniker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute.
2. A person's signature.
3. An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location.

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Examples

“The rookie was upset at being called Lemon Drop until she realized that everyone on the team had a silly moniker.”

“Again fairly common, and always amusing, are the monikers drawn from the (imagined) childhood of a particular vagrant.”

“A gang member may receive a new identity by taking on a nickname, or moniker, which others in the gang world would recognize. Monikers affirm a youth's commitment to gang life and may become their sole identity, the only way they see thselves and the only name they go by.”

“Recently, a class of reactions has gained tremendous attention in the chemistry community under the moniker of "click chemistry," a concept introduced by Kolb and colleagues.”

“Actually, the various monikers Pilgrims, Puritans, Plymouth Rocks, Red Stockings, Hubs and Hubites were frequently used, informally, for both Boston big league clubs until 1912.”

“The monikers of both these famously well-endowed movie stars contain enormous sworls (two of them, no less, for Ms West!) that could only signify you-know-what, according to Ms Koren.”

“Monikers are often composed from other monikers to allow object hierarchies to be navigated based on a textual description of a path.”

“The GetObject function can also be used to access objects via monikers. A moniker is itself an object that acts as an intermediary between VBScript and the actual object to be accessed. Monikers are typically used when the objects to be accessed exist in a namespace other than the file system.”

“There are different types of monikers, but the one that deals with object instantiation is the class moniker. A class moniker portrays a class factory.”

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