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Christening activity
Answer for the clue "Christening activity ", 6 letters:
naming
Alternative clues for the word naming
- Determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis
- New parent's task
- Charge with a task or function
- Ceremony for a newborn
- No good hiding old African dictator’s designation
- Novelist's or publisher's task
- As in in botany or biology, for example
- Activity for new parents
Word definitions for naming in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Name \Name\ (n[=a]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Named (n[=a]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Naming .] [AS. namian. See Name , n.] To give a distinctive name or appellation to; to entitle; to denominate; to style; to call. She named the child Ichabod. --1 Sam. iv. 21. Thus ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Associated with the process of giving a name to a person or thing. n. 1 A ritual or ceremony in which a name is given to a person. 2 The process of giving names to things. 3 The act of announcing the name of a person, organization etc. v (present participle ...
Usage examples of naming.
He invited me to come and spend a whole day with him, naming the days when I would be certain to find him at home, but he advised me to consult the Pacha Osman before accepting his invitation.
Tara right beside him, trying to call the lost horses out there, naming their names in the ambient, names not all of which he knew.
The court looked to call its new knight Ancel, for that he had once served in the kitchens, and no one gave any more thought to his naming than that, for the days of the False Janiffer were long passed.
Sieur had been naming the settlements to honour the original founders: Vithrancel for Ancel Den Rannion, Hafreinsaur for Hafrein Den Fellaemion.
Being in want of water, and his ship having suffered much by storm, the sight of some birds from the south induced him to hold his course that way, when he soon discovered a large country to which he gave the name of Austral India and Terre Australle, naming the inhabitants Australians.
Michael said, feeling none of the hesitance or awkwardness he would have once experienced on naming his occupation, his obsession.
I promised to come, as I was obliged to do, but I begged to be excused naming the day.
It did not strike her that the name of Ross Bland should have appeared upon the front page in big headlines, while that of Dana Brye could be included among those of persons who had gone somewhere, without naming the exact destination.
Bornhald had had no hesitation in naming Byar second under him when Eamon Valda gave him the command.
In a community where racial tensions run high, the naming leadership of Miller Dawkins has been something to behold.
He entered the enclosed space of the courtyard, mentally naming what was in it, the shade-happy euonymus and lobelia, the dark-star coleus, the honey locust with its pinnate leaves and unsplit pods.
This party, finding it impossible to influence the nomination of both members, contented itself with naming one, it being the mutual condition, in return for favouring the Government candidate, that the Government party should not oppose the choice of the liberals.
During the course of their work Guyton had become a convert to the new chemistry, and the book was as much a piece of propaganda for the new chemistry as it was a treatise on naming chemicals in a consistent way.
The agent spoke tersely, telling what he had learned from Jolles, naming Finger Lurbin as the aid of unknown killers who had ridden with the aviator.
Olaf Triggvison was in Lade, and there came to him a man naming himself Kark, bringing with him the severed head of Earl Hakon, which he offered to the king.