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In Name Only

Definition: In Name Only

In Name Only

Adverb

1. By title or repute though not in fact; "he's a doctor in name only".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: In Name Only

Synonym: in name (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: In Name Only

English words defined with "in name only": in name ♦ nominal, Nominalist, nominally, Nuncupative ♦ Per- ♦ Sub- ♦ titular. (references)

Specialty definitions using "in name only": Adramyttium, Ahasuerus, Aminadab, automatic-screw-machine setter, swiss-type ♦ beta reduction, Block Started by Symbol, Book-keeping, BRYAN, byname entry ♦ central place, CHUCKING-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR, MULTIPLE SPINDLE, VERTICAL, Clerical Titles, Columbia AppleTalk Package, computer ethics, congos ♦ Dalmanutha, Digital Audio Tape, Distributed Component Object Model ♦ Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996, Ferroelectric Random Access Memory, File Allocation Table, forename entry, Fountain of the Virgin ♦ General Public Virus, given name entry ♦ hard link, Hauran, HOLMES, Hungarian Notation ♦ IntelDX4 ♦ King ♦ LL, Long Words, Lydda ♦ Mahanaim, Matrix Math eXtensions, minerals separation process, Minni, most selective confidence intervals ♦ Nahash, Nathanael, netiquette ♦ OS and JEDGAR ♦ protected mode ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, Resource Description Framework ♦ Samaritan Pentateuch, Saut Lairds o' Dunscore, SCREW-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR, SWISS-TYPE, Sepharad, Shalott, String Oriented Symbolic Language, Sycamine tree ♦ T. Kohonen, three-letter acronym, Tiberias, Sea of, TYMNET ♦ VIC-20, video compression, Vote. (references)

Modern Usage: In Name Only

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

In Name Only (1969)

Wife in Name Only (1923)

Married in Name Only (1917)

R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only (1982)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Non-Fiction Usage: In Name Only

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	North Korea	A few minor political parties are allowed to exist in name only. (references)
	Syria	Non-Ba'ath Party members of the NPF exist as political parties largely in name only and conform strictly to Ba'ath Party and government policies. (references)
Political Rights	Syria	Non-Ba'th Party members of the NPF exist as political parties largely in name only and conform strictly to Ba'th Party and government policies. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Modern Translations: In Name Only

Language		Translations for "in name only"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		vain nimellisesti. (various references)

German		nur dem namen nach (in name alone). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		空位 (post in name only, vacant post), 名ばかりの王 (a king in name only). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なばかりのおう (a king in name only), くうい (captain, lieutenant, post in name only, vacant post). (various references)

Pig Latin		inay amenay onlyay

Russian		только номинально. (various references)

Swedish		endast till namnet. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: In Name Only

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	nomine. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Anagrams: In Name Only

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-m-n-n-n-o-y"
	-3 letters: alimony, inanely, lineman, melanin, nominal.
	-4 letters: amnion, anomie, anonym, anyone, eolian, eonian, laymen, lemony, lineny, lomein, mainly, maline, meanly, menial, minyan, moline, myelin, namely, nannie, nomina, nonman, nonmen, oilman, oilmen, online, yeoman.
	-5 letters: alien, aline, aloin, alone, amine, amino, amnio, amole, anile, anime, anion, annoy, anole, anomy, elain, eloin, email, inane, inlay, leman, lemon, liane, liman, limen, limey, linen, liney, loamy, maile, manly, mealy, meany, meiny, melon, minae, minny, money, monie, nanny, ninny, ninon, noily, nomen, nonyl, nylon, olein, yamen.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-m-n-n-n-o-y"
	+3 letters: nonmyelinated.
	+5 letters: environmentally.
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Alternative Orthography: In Name Only

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

49 6E 4E 61 6D 65 4F 6E 6C 79

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

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

01001001 01101110 00100000 01001110 01100001 01101101 01100101 00100000 01001111 01101110 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#32 &#78 &#97 &#109 &#101 &#32 &#79 &#110 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 004E 0061 006D 0065 004F 006E 006C 0079

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

4380248677971249807891

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern

5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams

9. Orthography
10. Bibliography

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