nomenclate

Definitions

To assign a name to, especially in accordance with a particular system of nomenclature; to name.

transitive

Examples

“Where specimens have⟳ appeared to me to be new, I have⟳ ventured, although with extreme diffidence, to nomenclate them.”

“Bleuler and Lehman nomenclate this state as smell⟳ and taste⟳ photismus.”

“... are meant for lions), tigers, antelopes, birds, satyrs and monstrous animals which it would puzzle a naturalist of the present⟳ age to nomenclate.”

“It grows more and more difficult to nomenclate noses as it does to classify character: tables of the length of noses in distinguished men have⟳ been collated, and the average fixed at two and five-eighths inches.”

“There is a distinction that should be made between the familiar verb "name⟳" versus, what may seem pedantic to the casual user, "nomenclate". The connotation associated with "nomenclate" is one of an existent system in which one assigns some pre-determinable, precise name⟳ to a given form⟳.”

“The difference between the perspectives of "organic" chemists (who view⟳ all ligands that have⟳ replaced a hydrogen atom in the parent compound as comparable and thus would nomenclate the lithium compound as "1-Lithio-", ...”

“It is very much important as well as essential to nomenclate a newly developed polymer to identify⟳ it and to differentiate it from the other.”

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