give name to

== English == === Verb === give name to (third-person singular simple present gives name to, present participle giving name to, simple past gave name to, past participle given name to) (transitive) To express (something) in words; to identify by name. 1711, letter signed ‘T.’ in Joseph Addison and Richard Steele (eds.), The Spectator, No. 145, 16 August, 1711, in The Works of Joseph Addison, New York: Harper, 1850, Volume 1, p. 218,[2] The skirt of your [men’s] fashionable coats forms as large a circumference as our [women’s] petticoats; as these are set out with whalebone, so are those with wire, to increase and sustain the bunch of fold that hangs down on each side; and the hat, I perceive is decreased in just proportion to the head-dresses. We [women] make a regular figure, but I defy your mathematics to give name to the form you [men] appear in. 1977, Audre Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” in Sister Outsider, Trumansburg, NY: Crossing Press, 1984, p. 36, […] it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are—until the poem—nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt. (transitive) To lend one's or its name to (something); to be the source of the name of (something). 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, London: Ward, Lock, Introduction, p. xii,[4] the author must now offer some notices of the individual who gives name to these volumes (transitive, obsolete) To give a name to (a person or animal). Synonym: name 1568, The Bishops’ Bible, London, Table setting out the genealogy of Adam,[6] And Adam gaue name to the woman, which was made of his ribbe (while he was a sleepe) and called her EVA, as he gaue name to al other creatures.