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"form": "names names",
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"third-person"
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},
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"form": "naming names",
"tags": [
"participle",
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{
"form": "named names",
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1953 May 25, “West Germany: Panthers in the Streets”, in Time",
"text": "He named names; the whole gang was rounded up, and all were sentenced to two years in reform school.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008 May 18, Clark Hoyt, “Journalism From the Bottom of the Boat”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-06-16",
"text": "Sometimes it is not the journalist who is in peril but the subject of a story, and naming names can leave both the reporter and the reader uneasy.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To identify specific people, especially people involved in misdeeds or other secretive activity."
],
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"identify",
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],
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]
],
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"(idiomatic) To identify specific people, especially people involved in misdeeds or other secretive activity."
],
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}
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"word": "inform"
},
{
"word": "grass up"
},
{
"word": "snitch"
},
{
"word": "rat out"
}
],
"tags": [
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "identify specific people",
"word": "nimetä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "identify specific people",
"word": "citer des noms"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "identify specific people",
"word": "Ross und Reiter nennen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "identify specific people",
"word": "nevesíti/megnevezi az érintetteket"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "identify specific people",
"word": "neveket említ"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"english": "without naming names",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "identify specific people",
"word": "inga namn nämnda"
}
]
}
],
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"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "name names"
}
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"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
"form": "naming names",
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"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"participle",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1953 May 25, “West Germany: Panthers in the Streets”, in Time",
"text": "He named names; the whole gang was rounded up, and all were sentenced to two years in reform school.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008 May 18, Clark Hoyt, “Journalism From the Bottom of the Boat”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-06-16",
"text": "Sometimes it is not the journalist who is in peril but the subject of a story, and naming names can leave both the reporter and the reader uneasy.",
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}
],
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"To identify specific people, especially people involved in misdeeds or other secretive activity."
],
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"identify",
"identify"
],
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"specific",
"specific"
],
[
"misdeed",
"misdeed"
],
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"secretive",
"secretive"
]
],
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"(idiomatic) To identify specific people, especially people involved in misdeeds or other secretive activity."
],
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{
"word": "inform"
},
{
"word": "grass up"
},
{
"word": "snitch"
},
{
"word": "rat out"
}
],
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"idiomatic"
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}
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"tags": [
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "identify specific people",
"word": "nimetä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "identify specific people",
"word": "citer des noms"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "identify specific people",
"word": "Ross und Reiter nennen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "identify specific people",
"word": "nevesíti/megnevezi az érintetteket"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "identify specific people",
"word": "neveket említ"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"english": "without naming names",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "identify specific people",
"word": "inga namn nämnda"
}
],
"word": "name names"
}
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