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| in the name of |
| 1. prep. With appeal to; often used to introduce oaths |
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| In the name of all things sacred, please stop that screaming! |
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| 2. prep. By the authority of. |
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| In the name of the law, come out with your hands up. |
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| 3. prep. Under the name or possession of. |
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| He put the house in the name of his children. |
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| 4. prep. Under the designation or excuse of. |
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| These additional checks at airports are justified in the name of security. |
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| Analysis |
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| in |
| 1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits. |
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| 2. prep. Contained by. |
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| The dog is in the kennel. |
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| 3. prep. Within. |
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| 4. prep. Surrounded by. |
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| the |
| 1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already |
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| I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) |
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| The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) |
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| The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. |
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| 2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. |
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| name |
| 1. n. Any nounal word or phrase which indicates a particular person, place, class, or thing. |
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| I've never liked the name my parents gave me so I changed it at the age of twenty. |
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| 2. n. Reputation. |
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| 3. n. An abusive or insulting epithet. |
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| Stop calling me names! |
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| of |
| 1. prep. Expressing distance or motion. |
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| 2. prep. (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off". |
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| 3. prep. (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.). |
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| 4. prep. From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.). |
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| There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage. |
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