put a name to
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.33 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To identify the author of (a publication or other writing).
Example Sentences
- "“I can’t put a name to you—but I’m sure I’ve met you—I’ve met everybody, here, or in Paris or London. Aren’t you in diplomacy? […]”"
- "“give your orders, you two gentlemen, and you’re welcome to whatever you put a name to.”"
- "It was a feeling so alien to his usual state of being that he was not able to put a name to it until that night, lying in bed and looking at the ceiling and replaying the day. Power."
- "I had otherwise interpreted this phrase, had he put a name to his book"
- "how unusual soever it is to put a Name to such small Papers"
- "1711, F. Manning, “Memorial to the Grisons” in The Present State of Europe, February 1711, Volume 12, p. 57, Libels which have been publish’d, but which no Body durst put a Name to"
Inflected Forms
puts a name to (present, singular)
putting a name to (participle, present)
put a name on (alternative)