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BY-NAME

Definition: BY-NAME

BY-NAME

Noun

1. A nickname.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "BY-NAME" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references)

Synonyms: BY-NAME

Synonyms by domain: directory name (computing), family name (general), last name, name (language, social sciencesgeneralcomputing, meteorology & standardscomputingcomputinginformation, language), no name (military & defense, language), surname (general).

Synonyms within Context: BY-NAME

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Misnomer	Nickname, sobriquet, by-name; assumed name, assumed title; alias; nom de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre, nom de plume; pseudonym, pseudonymy.
Nomenclature	Name; appelation, appelative; designation, title; heading, rubric; caption; denomination; by-name, epithet.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Expression: BY-NAME

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "BY-NAME": call-by-name.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: BY-NAME

Language		Translations for "BY-NAME"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�"�名字. (various references)

Finnish		liikanimi (nickname). (various references)

Korean		에 의하여 이름. (various references)

Manx		lhiass-ennym (alias, euphemism). (various references)

Pig Latin		y-namebay

Russian		прозвище (agnomen, cognomen, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet, surname). (various references)

Vietnamese		tên tục, tên lóng, tên hèm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: BY-NAME

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: baymen, byname.
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-m-n-y"
	-1 letter: beamy, embay, maybe, meany, yamen.
	-2 letters: abye, amen, bane, beam, bean, bema, mabe, mane, many, mean, myna, nabe, name, nema, yean.
	-3 letters: aby, ane, any, aye, bam, ban, bay, ben, bey, bye, mae, man, may, men, nab, nae, nam, nay, neb, yam, yea, yen.
	-4 letters: ab, ae, am, an, ay, ba, be, by, em.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-m-n-y"
	+1 letter: bynames.
	+2 letters: amenably, bogeyman, embaying, lambency, mangabey, moneybag, sunbeamy.
	+3 letters: boogeyman, embayment, embryonal, lambently, mangabeys, moneybags.
	+4 letters: embayments, emblazonry, lamentably, manageably, terminably.
	+5 letters: amblygonite, amenability, assemblyman, assemblymen, bimillenary, commendably, denumerably, embracingly, embryonated, flamboyance, impregnably, inestimably, innumerably, salmonberry, unmemorably.
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Alternative Orthography: BY-NAME

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 59 2D 4E 41 4D 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01011001 00101101 01001110 01000001 01001101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#89 &#45 &#78 &#65 &#77 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0059 002D 004E 0041 004D 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36591548354739

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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