name someone/something after someone/something

Examples of named

named

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Even in this, the only surviving portion, no less than 50 falconers with whom he worked are named.
Within this, the cultural changes have a tempo based around these recognisable events, with named key individuals and short periods of analysis.
No fewer than seven places are named after him and very many plants and animals, some of which have been noted above.
There has been a considerable amount of work on such named entity recognition problems.
As entity names provide important content in a text document, named entity recognition is a very important step in information extraction.
So you might suspect geospatial named entity recognition could have a role to play here, and it does.
As chemists reported and named their findings, it became increasingly clear that a number of differentiating criteria were possible.
As the chimpanzees decided which objects were to be named and shown, they also incorporated many aspects of the teacher's role into their own behavior.
This construction also has a pronoun subject, but it repeats the reference to "we" from the adult question, with the needed object specifically named postverbally.
Their principal finding was that second and sixth-grade children named pictures more slowly when they had words written on them.
Late-night talk shows typically feature interviews with celebrities, as well as comic skits and monologues by the hosts, after whom the shows are usually named.
There are no recursive calls - return values are built from objects already known and named.
Note that the bound variables of e need not be distinctly named.
The occurrence of redundant groups indicates a redundancy of means to meet the need of a particular agent, named the trigger agent.
Since we use type-variables named s for structure operators, our choice of names for type variables in the following paragraphs may seem slightly unconventional.
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